A long-awaited new book from political theorist Harry Cleaver.

A central figure for anti-authoritarian Marxists and radicals who see the working class as an autonomous force, capable of acting independently and not simply reacting to the depredations of capitalism, Harry Cleaver brings this vision up to date, interpreting capitalism’s latest crises and demonstrating how ordinary people can, and do, rupture the smooth functioning of the system that exploits them.

PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
Three Theses on Financial Crises
PART I: ON THE USEFULNESS OF MARX'S LABOR THEORY OF VALUE
Why and How Economists Got Rid of the Labor Theory of Value
Why and How Some Marxists Abandoned the Labor Theory of Value
Some Background
The Monthly Review Abandonment
The Analytical Marxist Abandonment
The Post-Operaismo Abandonment
An Alternative Interpretation
The Substance of Value: Abstract Labor, or Work-as-Social-Control
Can Value be Measured?
Exchange and Money as the Form of Value
The Simple Form and Reflexive Mediation
The Expanded Form, Totalization and Infinity
The General Form and Syllogistic Mediation
The Money Form
From the Money Form to the Circuits of Capital
PART II: DECODING FINANCE, FINANCIAL CRISIS, AND FINANCIALIZATION
Decoding … Finance and Financial Crisis
The Source of Financial Profit—Revising Marx
Decoding … financialization
The Stories Economists Tell
One Marxist Counter-Narrative
Taking Class Struggle Into Account
PART III: POTENTIAL STRATEGIES AND TACTICS FOR RUPTURING THE DIALECTICS OF MONEY
Reforms and Revolution
Our Use of Money
Money as Measure of Value?
Money as Standard of Price and Medium of Circulation
Money as Means of Payment
Restricting the Need for Money
CONCLUSION
Less Work
De-commodification in Action and Language
Notes
Index