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The fallacy of work worship
ALAN McGUIRE recommends a book that tries to shift our understanding of work and our relationship to it
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The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work
by Jason Read
Verso, £16.99

 

THERE are trends in book genres, and trends in political theory are not exempt from this. The reading of Spinoza is an exception to the rule of cringey political theory. Marx himself read Spinosa, as did Louis Althusser, Mark Fisher and Antonio Negri.

His standing as one of the original materialists, his critique of liberals such as Hobbes and Locke and his charge against the dominant thought of religion of the day all make him a satisfactory companion to read alongside Marx.

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