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The Communism of Love: An Inquiry Into the Poverty of Exchange Value

The Communism of Love: An Inquiry Into the Poverty of Exchange Value

Gilman-Opalsky, Richard

Paperback

PhilosophySocial Movements

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 1849353913
ISBN13: 9781849353915
Publisher: AK Press
Published: Dec 15 2020
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A reminder of the most powerful and sustaining force in our lives. And that it's under constant threat.

Exploring the meanings and powers of love from ancient Greece to the present day, Richard Gilman-Opalsky argues that what is called love by the best thinkers who have approached the subject is in fact the beating heart of communism--understood as a way of living, not as a form of government. Along the way, he reveals with clarity that the capitalist way of assigning value to things is incapable of appreciating what humans value most. Capitalism cannot value the experiences and relationships that make our lives worth living and can only destroy love by turning it into a commodity. The Communism of Love follows the struggles of love in different contexts of race, class, gender, and sexuality, and shows how the aspiration for love is as close as we may get to a universal communist aspiration.

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