| No Blood for Oil: Essays on Energy, Class Struggle, and War 1998-2016 Contributor(s): Caffentzis, George (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 1570273200 ISBN-13: 9781570273209 Publisher: Autonomedia OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Political Science | Essays - Science | Energy |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.95 lbs) 340 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "In this meticulous Marxist analysis of the role of energy within the class struggle, George Caffentzis deployment of both the labor theory of value and detailed historical analysis provides us with vital, indeed, indispensable new insights. A follow-up to Midnight Notes Midnight Oil: Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992, this new set of essays, written over the last two decades, builds on the analysis contained in that earlier volume. The essays deepen and widen our understanding of the connections between capital's efforts to use both our own and natural sources of energy against us and our struggles to refuse both forms of exploitation..." -- Harry Cleaver, author of Reading Capital Politically |
Contributor Bio(s): Caffentzis, George: - George Caffentzis is a Marxist theorist whose lifetime of intellectual and political organizing has engaged collectives at the forefront of resistance to neoliberal development. A cofounder of the Zerowork collective, George has been instrumental in the work of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and Midnight Notes amongst others. For many years a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, George has worked within countless movement struggles and has helped to develop thinking of the commons and commoning for multiple generations of scholars and activists. His previous works include In Letters of Blood and Fire and Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government. |