Harry Cleaver

Content by our about Harry Cleaver, autonomist Marxist theoretician, and author of Reading Capital Politically, an autonomist reading of Karl Marx's Capital. (b. 1944)

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A man from the IMF holds a rope and a bag of money in front of a peasant "The rope first... then the loan. It's either you CLIMB with it or HANG".

Notes on the Origin of the Debt Crisis - by Harry Cleaver, Jr.

Midnight Notes on debt, from 1990.

Looting during LA riots

"NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!" - Harry Cleaver

Harry Cleaver on the LA Riots, from London Notes #1 1992.

The Uses of an Earthquake - Harry Cleaver

Midnight Notes on the disaster communism and refual of work in the Mexican community of Tepito.

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The Commoner #10: The Carnival of Values and the Exchange Value of Carnivals

Issue 10 of The Commoner magazine

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The Commoner #5: Crises

Issue 5 of The Commoner magazine

Harry Cleaver debates Hillel Ticktin: on capitalism's present crisis... danger and opportunity

A debate organised by Radical Chains and London Notes in London in the 1990s.

General introduction to Zerowork

A short introduction to the Zerowork journal by Harry Cleaver.

Immigration: The blockage of mobility in the Mediterranean basin - Yann Moulier and Pierre Ewenzyck

1978 article with an introduction by Harry Cleaver on migration controls in the Mediterranean basin area.

Internationalisation of capital and mode of production in agriculture - Harry Cleaver

Article on agricultural policy by American autonomist Harry Cleaver

Close the IMF, abolish debt and end development: a class analysis of the international debt crisis - Harry Cleaver

The political targets of this article are reformist understandings of international…

Kropotkin, Self-valorization And The Crisis Of Marxism

This paper was written for and presented to the Conference on Pyotr Alexeevich Kropotkin organized…

On Schoolwork and the Struggle Against It - Harry Cleaver

“On Schoolwork and the Struggle Against It” is an article about the organisation of and resistance to the contemporary capitalist university by Harry Cleaver, a relatively well known autonomist Marxist and professor of economics at the University of Texas in Austin.