ABSTRACT

A critical and provocative exploration of the political, conceptual and cultural points of resonance between Deleuze's minor politics and Marx's critique of capitalist dynamics, engaging with Deleuze's missing work, The Grandeur of Marx.
This book explores the core categories of communism and capital in conjunction with a wealth of contemporary and historical political concepts and movements - from the lumpenproletariat and anarchism, to Italian autonomia and Antonio Negri, immaterial labour and the refusal of work. This book will serve as an introduction to Deleuze's politics and the contemporary vitality of Marx for students and will challenge scholars in the fields of social and political theory, sociology and cultural studies.

chapter 1|3 pages

Introduction

The grandeur of Marx

chapter |11 pages

The riddle of politics

chapter 2|9 pages

Minor politics

The styles of cramped creation

chapter |3 pages

Conclusion

part |1 pages

The unproductive lumpenproletariat

chapter |11 pages

Lumpenproletarian spontaneity

chapter 4|9 pages

The social factory

Machines, work, control

chapter 5|11 pages

The refusal of work

chapter |13 pages

Margins at the centre

chapter |3 pages

Conclusion

part 6|2 pages

Conclusion