Precarious communism
Subtitle: manifest mutations, manifesto detourned
By: Richard Gilman-Opalsky
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9781570272929
Subjects: Communism
Description: "How does one demonstrate the enduring relevance of a sacred text but to help it speak to present times? This is what churches do with the Bible and what Marxists do with the writings of Marx. Richard Gilman-Opalsky offers a book-length détournement of The Communist Manifesto as a loving blasphemy, as a grateful revolt, both for and against the original text. Gilman-Opalsky detourns the 1848 manifesto as an exploration of its ongoing applicability, as well as its failures, in relation to capitalism and its evolving crises. Precarious Communism explores long-form détournement as a tool for critical theory. But most importantly, Gilman-Opalsky's new book is a mutant manifesto of its own that makes the case for an autonomist and millennial Marxism, for the many movements of precarious communism"--Back cover.
Notes: "Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.