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The essays draw on a contemporary Marxism grounded in history and revolutionary theory, rethinking categories such as money, time, work, energy, and value in the context of shifting class struggle. The volume is presented as a tool for militant research and renewed emancipation amid crisis.","Praise for In Letters of Blood and Fire  \n“George Caffentzis’s essays in this timely collection offer a sharply uncompromising analysis of the transmutations of capital over the last three decades and a rereading of the classic texts in light of our own times. 􀀈ey teach us the constant alertness that we must embrace at the frontline of value struggle. 􀀈is teaching is so much more precious to us as we approach a renewed period of struggle capable of subverting the meaning of the current crisis and turning it into an opportunity for emancipation. An alertness that is essential, for our own safety and that of our communities, and that does not 􀀖nd comfort in false myths: capital’s beast remains abeast, and there is no technology or privileged type of labour that will deliver us a world of social justice and peace ”  \n—Massimo De Angelis, editor of 􀀉e Commoner: A Web Journal of Other Values and author of 􀀉e Beginning of History: Value Struggles and Global Capital  \n“George Caffentzis has been the philosopher of the anticapitalist movement from the American civil rights movement of the 1960s to the European autonomists of the 1970s, from the Nigerian workers of the oil boom of the 1980s to the encuentros of the Zapatistas in the 1990s, from the feminists of Wages for Housework to the struggle of the precariat for the commons. Trained as both an economist and a physicist he has taken fundamental categories such as money, time, work, energy, and value andrethought them in relation to both revolutionary Marxism and the dynamics of our changing movement. A historian of our own times, he carries the political wisdom of the twentieth century into the twenty-􀀖rst. He is a lively and dogged polemicist; he dances circles around the pompous marxologist; with the passing of time his thought has grown in depth and increasingly tends to be expressed with pleasure and humor. 􀀈e lever by which he overturns the world is light as a feather, and its fulcrum is as down-to-earth as the housewife, the student, the peasant, the worker. Here  \nis capitalist critique and proletarian reasoning 􀀖t for our time. In one sense he is equally at home in Brooklyn, Maine, the UK, Italy, Nigeria, Greece, or Indonesia, and in another sense he is just as at home with Æisop and Diogenes of antiquity, the English empiricist philosophers of money in the mercantile epoch, or the various European philosophers of modernity who have held sway in U. S. Academia ”  \n—Peter Linebaugh, author of 􀀉e Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All  \n“􀀈ese essays reveal not only not only the blood and 􀀖re of twenty-􀀖rstcentury primitive accumulation but also the inescapable linkage of this savage and ongoing process to new forms of futuristic dispossession inscribed with robot ichor, silicon chips, and genomic code. George Caffentzis has for decades been creating a contemporary Marxism that is profoundly theorized, deeply historical, utterly original, compulsively readable and always connected to the 􀀖ghting fronts of an ever-changing class struggle. Today his writings are integral to, and indispensable for an understanding of, the uprisings of a global proletariat that again explode across the planet”  \n—Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism  \nIn Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism George Caffentzis  \n©2013 George Caffentzis  \n􀀈is edition ©2013 PM Press  \n􀀈is work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. 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