Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Note on the New Edition
Foreword
Introduction to the New Edition
Preface
Introduction
1. Clipped Coins
2. Civil Government
3. Abused Words
Conclusion: Weaving an Origin
Postface: John Locke, the Philosopher of Primitive Accumulation
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

George Caffentzis is a co-founder of the Midnight Notes Collective and coordinator of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (CAFA). Caffentzis was a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern Maine for over thirty years before retirement. His previous publications include In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism (Brooklyn: Common Notions, 2013).

Reviews

'Caffentzis is a practical philosopher and a pure teacher. His reasoning even at its most abstract always tends to the political. The street is his classroom. This is truly vulgar Marxism, that is, it is a critique by, with, and for the vulgus, or common people (you and I)'

-- Peter Linebaugh, author of 'The Magna Carta Manifesto' (University of California Press, 2008)