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Harry Cleaver — ink portrait
§ The minds · b. 1944 · United States · Economist

Harry Cleaver

Reading Capital politically

Marx as a weapon of struggle.

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Governance−72
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Social+58
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The American economist whose 'Reading Capital Politically' carried Italian autonomism into the English-speaking world, reframing Marx as a weapon for self-organised struggle rather than a science of crisis.

social

Progressive of the global autonomist current.

economic

Read 'Capital' as a tool for workers' self-activity, not economic law.

governance

Autonomy of struggles, networked and self-directed.

Notable for
  • 'Reading Capital Politically'
  • Bridged autonomism to the US
  • Theorist of self-activity
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