George Caffentzis is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern Maine and a founding member of the Midnight Notes Collective. He is the author of Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government: John Locke's Philosophy of Money and the coeditor of A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities. He lives in New York City.
"George Caffentzis has been the philosopher of the anticapitalist
movement from the American civil rights movement of the 1960s to
the European autonomists of the 1970s, from the Nigerian workers of
the oil boom of the 1980s to the encuentros of the Zapatistas in
the 1990s, from the feminists of wages-for-housework to the
struggle of the precariat for the commons. A historian of our own
times, he carries the political wisdom of the twentieth century
into the twenty-first. Here is capitalist critique and proletarian
reasoning fit for our time."
--Peter Linebaugh, author of The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties
and Commons for All "George Caffentzis's essays in this timely
collection offer a sharply uncompromising analysis of the
transmutations of capital over the last three decades and a
rereading of the classic texts in light of our own times. They
teach us the constant alertness that we must embrace at the
frontline of value struggle."
--Massimo De Angelis, author of The Beginning of History: Value
Struggles and Global Capital "These essays reveal not only the
blood and fire of twenty-first-century primitive accumulation but
also the inescapable linkage of this savage and ongoing process to
new forms of futuristic dispossession inscribed with robot ichor,
silicon chips, and genomic code. George Caffentzis has for decades
been creating a contemporary Marxism that is profoundly theorized,
deeply historical, utterly original, compulsively readable, and
always connected to the fighting fronts of an ever-changing class
struggle. Today his writings are integral to, and indispensable for
an understanding of, the uprisings of a global proletariat that has
again exploded across the planet."
--Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of
Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism
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