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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The Fragile Juggernaut: Marx & Engels on Capitalism, Class Struggle and Crisis - Harry Cleaver

Whether loving or hating it, many visualize capitalism as an unstoppable juggernaut…

The Subversion of Money-as-Command in the Current Crisis - Harry Cleaver

7 The Subversion of Money-as-Command in the Current Crisis by Harry Cleaver from the 1996 book Global Capital, National State and the Politics of Money edited by Werner Bonefeld and John Holloway.

The Labour Debate

The Labour Debate: An Investigation into the Theory and Reality of Capitalist Work - Ana C. Dinerstein & Michael Neary

Out of print 2002 collection in the Open Marxist tradition. Co-editor Mike Neary…

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