The Dispossessed: Karl Marx’s Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor
2023; Routledge; Volume: 35; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/08935696.2023.2215144
ISSN1475-8059
Autores Tópico(s)Political Economy and Marxism
ResumoThis essay reviews Daniel Bensaïd’s book The Dispossessed: Karl Marx’s Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor. The book’s first translation into English features a new English translation of Marx’s early journalistic reflections, written for the Rheinische Zeitung, on peasants’ wood theft and an early law to criminalize what had been customarily accepted activity. Bensaïd’s book draws on this history to make critical sense of contemporary forms of dispossession and the diverse struggles to which they give rise.
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