Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government

George Caffentzis is a co-founder of the Midnight Notes Collective and coordinator of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (CAFA). Caffentzis was a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern Maine for over thirty years before retirement. His previous publications include In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism (Brooklyn: Common Notions, 2013).

'Caffentzis is a practical philosopher and a pure teacher. His reasoning even at its most abstract always tends to the political. The street is his classroom. This is truly vulgar Marxism, that is, it is a critique by, with, and for the vulgus, or common people (you and I)'

• Acknowledgments Note on the New Edition Foreword Introduction to the New Edition Preface Introduction 1. Clipped Coins 2. Civil Government 3. Abused Words Conclusion: Weaving an Origin Postface: John Locke, the Philosopher of Primitive Accumulation Notes Bibliography Index