The Common in Communism

By M. Hardt. 2010

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This essay reflects on the concept of the common as both natural good and human product. The common, in other words, refers to the land, water, and air as well as to language, knowledges, ideas, images, and affects. The primary argument is that capitalist production is increasingly reliant on and oriented toward the production of the common and yet the common is destroyed (and its productivity reduced) when transformed into either private or public property. The task is to institute free access and circulation of the common.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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• Virtual special issue editorial essay: ‘The shitty rent business’: What’s the point of land rent theory? (2016, background): “This, further, has meant that the basis of a Marxist theory of monopolies has been absent where it should have been highly applicable to a contemporary economy rife with rentiers of immaterial goods in a financialised ‘knowledge’ economy (Hardt, 2010; Ramirez, 2009; Zeller, 2008).”