Cryptocurrencies are often associated with right-wing political movements, or even with the alt-right. They are the preserve of libertarians and fans of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek. With their promotion of anonymity and individualism, there's no doubt that they seamlessly slot into the prevailing anti-State ideology. But in this book Mark Alizart argues that the significance of cryptocurrencies goes well beyond cryptoanarchism. In so far as they allow us 'to appropriate collectively the means of monetary production', to paraphrase Marx, and to replace 'the government of persons by the administration of things', as Engels advocated, they form the basis for a political regime that begins to look like a communism which has at last come to fruition - a cryptocommunism.
| ISBN: | 9781509538577 |
| Publication date: | 31st July 2020 |
| Author: | Mark Alizart |
| Publisher: | Polity Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 135 pages |
| Series: | Theory Redux |
| Genres: |
Sociology and anthropology |
Cryptocurrencies are often associated with right-wing political movements, or even with the alt-right. They are the preserve of libertarians and fans of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek. With their promotion of anonymity and individualism, there's no doubt that they seamlessly slot into the prevailing anti-State ideology. But in this book Mark Alizart argues that the significance of cryptocurrencies goes well beyond cryptoanarchism. In so far as they allow us 'to appropriate collectively the means of monetary production', to paraphrase Marx, and to replace 'the government of persons by the administration of things', as Engels advocated, they form the basis for a political regime that begins to look like a communism which has at last come to fruition - a cryptocommunism.
Cryptocommunism features in the following genres: Sociology and anthropology
Cryptocommunism is available in Paperback, Hardback
Cryptocommunism was written by Mark Alizart and published by Polity Press
Cryptocommunism has 135 pages
Yes it is part of Theory Redux series
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