Omnia Sunt Communia: On the Commons and the Transformation to Postcapitalism

ISBN-13: 9781783600625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 458 str.

Massimo De Angelis

Opis

In Omnia Sunt Communia, Massimo de Angelis offers a radical political economy, illuminating the steps necessary to arrive at a post-capitalist world. By conceptualizing the idea of commons not just as common goods but as a set of social systems, de Angelis shows their pervasive presence in everyday life, and he maps out a strategy for total social transformation.

From the micro to the macro, de Angelis unveils the commons as fields of power relations--shared space, objects, and subjects--that explode the limits of daily life under capitalism. He exposes attempts to co-opt the commons, through the use of seemingly innocuous words such as "participation" and "governance," and he reveals the potential for radical transformation rooted in the social reproduction of our communities, life, work, and society as a whole.

Recenzje

'An extraordinary new book.'
CounterPunch

'De Angelis does for the commons in this book what Marx did for capitalism in Capital. Omnia Sunt Communia will be indispensable to scholars and activists grappling with the most important question of our time: what system, if any, should follow the end of capitalism?'
George Caffentzis, author of In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism

'An ambitious and path-breaking work. While he introduces us to the main theorists of the commons, De Angelis also explores new ground. It makes for a powerful and challenging book that all educators and activists in movements for social justice should read.'
Silvia Federici, author of Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

'Carefully argued and with a wealth of profound examples, this book is at once expansively curious and politically urgent. De Angelis does justice to the complex heat and light of the commons: our hidden past, our living present and our potential future.'
Max Haiven, author of Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power

'As the crises of neoliberal capitalism deepen, Massimo De Angelis offers us a sweeping framework for understanding how commons can provide practical pathways for political and social emancipation. Timely, insightful and hopeful.'
David Bollier, author of Think Like a Commoner

'De Angelis has applied his considerable academic understanding to his practical experience of communing to advance a critical conversation on social change.'
Green Left Weekly

Spis treści

Introduction
Part One: Commons as systems

1. Common goods
2. Systems
3. Elements
Part Two: From Elinor Ostrom to Karl Marx

4. Commons governance
5. The money nexus and the commons formula
Part Three: Commoning: the source of grassroots power

6. Mobilising social labour for commoning
7. The production of autonomy, boundaries and sense
Part Four: Social change

8. Boundary commoning
9. Commons and capital/state
10. Towards postcapitalism

O autorze

Massimo De Angelis is professor of political economy at the University of East London, and founder and editor of the web journal The Commoner (www.thecommoner.org). His previous books include The Beginning of History (2007).