Cryptocommunism

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.

Author: Robin MacKay, Mark Alizart
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 10/05/2020
Pages: 135
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.90w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781509538584
ISBN10: 1509538585
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- Business & Economics | Money & Monetary Policy

About the Author
Mark Alizart is a writer and philosopher who lives in Paris.