In store now! The Communism of Love: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Exchange Value by Richard Gilman-Opalsky
Gillman-Opalsky explores the commodification of love through the capitalist system and how power dynamics can affect the nature of love. Before offering an aspirational alternative of what love could be divorced from the hierarchical and capitalist structures we currently live and love within.
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The Communism of Love: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Exchange Value by Richard Gilman-Opalsky
Hardback RRP £18.95
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 to have approached the subject is in fact the beating heart of communism—that is, communism understood as a human yearning and way of life, not as a form of government. Along the way, he reveals with clarity that the capitalist method of assigning value to things is incapable of appreciating what humans treasure most. Capitalism cannot value the experiences and relationships that make our lives worth living; it 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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