The Dispossessed: Karl Marx's Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor

by Daniel Bensaïd

Book Overview

Excavating Marx's early writings to rethink the rights of the poor and the idea of the commons in an era of unprecedented privatization

The politics of dispossession are everywhere. Troubling developments in intellectual property, genomics, and biotechnology are undermining established concepts of property, while land appropriation and ecological crises reconfigure basic institutions of ownership. In The Dispossessed,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517903858
• ISBN13: 9781517903855
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"