Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts

by Max Haiven

Overview

Capitalism has become a system of economic revenge, meted out against oppressed populations around the globe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745340555
Publisher:	Pluto Press
Publication date:	05/20/2020
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.32(w) x 8.46(h) x (d)

About the Author

Max Haiven is Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice at Lakehead University, Canada. His books include Art after Money, Money after Art (Pluto, 2018), Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power (Zed Books, 2004), Cultures of Financialization (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014) and the Radical Imagination (Zed Books, 2014).

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Ghosts of Empire, The Revenge of Capital
1. The Art of Unpayable Debts
2. Currencies of Vengeance: Seeing Money (Un)Like a State
3. Commodity Frictions: Palm Oil, Carceral States, Surplus Populations
4. Our Opium Wars: Already Dead in an Empire of Pain (Management)
5. Revenge: The Cultural Illogic of Belated Capitalism
6. Conclusion: Dig Two Graves

Editorial Reviews

'Perhaps the most theoretically creative radical thinker of the moment'

David Graeber

"Max Haiven retraces the roots of the current regression, of the reactionary trend that is driving the world toward a new darkness. These roots are humiliation and revenge. In my opinion, this book is of strategic importance" - Franco Berardi, author of 'Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility'

"A deeply learned debt warrior, Haiven lays bare the abject cruelty of financial capitalism, and provides us with a rich supply of sources and arguments for a fightback that gives as good as it takes" - Andrew Ross, author of 'Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal'

"Perhaps the most theoretically creative radical thinker of the moment" - David Graeber, author of 'Debt: The First 5000 Years'

From the Publisher

'Max Haiven retraces the roots of the current regression, of the reactionary trend that is driving the world toward a new darkness. These roots are humiliation and revenge. In my opinion, this book is of strategic importance'

Franco Berardi

'A deeply learned debt warrior, Haiven lays bare the abject cruelty of financial capitalism, and provides us with a rich supply of sources and arguments for a fightback that gives as good as it takes' 

Andrew Ross