{"product_id":"cryptocommunism-hardback-9781509538577","title":"Cryptocommunism (Hardback) 9781509538577","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCryptocommunism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMark Alizart (Author), Robin Mackay (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509538577, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 31 July 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e135 pages\u003cbr\u003e19.3 x 13 x 1.8 cm, 0.238 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A fascinating antidote to reductive takes on cryptocurrencies. Blockchains are more than just cryptolibertarianism and this book makes a provocative and wide-ranging case for just how important they might be.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNick Srnicek, King’s College London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Alizart's arguments are compelling and replete with insights into what a digital-empowered post-capitalist society might look like.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eRed Pepper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Creative and iconoclastic\"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarx and Philosophy Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eCryptocurrencies 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: The Institution of Liberty \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I Government of People, Administration of Things\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 A State without Statism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Cybernetics and Governmentality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 From Democratic Centralism to Decentralized Consensus\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Fully Automated Blockchain Communism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II Collective Appropriation of the Means of Monetary Production\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Thermocommunism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Monetary Institutions of Capitalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Fool’s Gold\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Everyone’s a Banker\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III A New International\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Collectivist Intelligence\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Resurrection of Nature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Leviathan 2.0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Living Currency\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Cryptoletarians of All Countries\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441801785624,"sku":"9781509538577","price":31.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509538577.jpg?v=1785026112","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/cryptocommunism-hardback-9781509538577","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}