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Cryptocommunism
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This book is ideal for readers interested in political theory, cryptocurrency beyond libertarian perspectives, and those curious about the intersection of technology and post-capitalism.
"The communist manifesto for the age of Bitcoin"--
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Cryptocurrencies are often associated with right-wing political movements, or even with the alt-right. They are the preserve of libertarians and fans of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek. With their promotion of anonymity and individualism, there’s no doubt that they seamlessly slot into the prevailing anti-State ideology.
But in this book, Mark Alizart argues that the significance of cryptocurrencies goes well beyond cryptoanarchism. In so far as they allow us ‘to appropriate collectively the means of monetary production’, to paraphrase Marx, and to replace ‘the government of persons by the administration of things’, as Engels advocated, they form the basis for a political regime that begins to look like a communism which has at last come to fruition – a cryptocommunism.
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Nick Srnicek from King’s College London praises the book as “a fascinating antidote to reductive takes on cryptocurrencies” that makes a “provocative and wide-ranging case.” Red Pepper finds Alizart’s arguments “compelling and replete with insights” about a digital post-capitalist society, while the Marx and Philosophy Review of Books calls it “creative and iconoclastic.”
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ISBN: 9781509538584
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 July 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Polity Press
Contributors:
- Translated by Robin Mackay
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 125.0mm
Height: 188.0mm
Weight: 152g
Pages: 135
About the Author
Mark Alizart is a writer and philosopher who lives in Paris.
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