Nonfiction. Political Science. Criticism and Theory. REVOLUTIONARY WRITING comprises fourteen radical essays in "open" or "autonomous" Marxism, subverting (by critiquing) the typical concept of the political, and examining the current configurations of the insurrection of global labor against global capital--culled from the now-defunct British neo-Marxist journal Common Sense, published between 1987 and 1999. Its contributors include John Holloway, Johannes Agnoli, Harry Cleaver, Werner Bonefeld, Ferruccio Gambino, George Caffentzis, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Antonio Negri, and Mike Rooke.

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Werner Bonefeld specializes in critical political economy and social theory. He has taught at the Universities of Frankfurt and Edinburgh, and more recently he conducted post-graduate seminars at the Universities of Puebla and Buenos Aries. His work contributed to the development of the internationally recognised Open Marxism school. He is a professor in the Department of Politics at the University of York, England, and teaches a variety of topics, including State, Economy and Society and Karl Marx. His lectures at the University of Buenos Aires will be published in 2010. With Michael Heinrich he is currently completing a book on critical theory and political economy, forthcoming in German in 2010, and with Christine Achinger (Warwick) and Marcel Stoetzler (Manchester) he is editing a critical volume on Antisemitism for publication in 2011. Bonefeld is the editor of SUBVERTING THE PRESENT, IMAGINING THE FUTURE: INSURRECTION, MOVEMENT, COMMONS (2007) and REVOLUTIONARY WRITING: COMMON SENSE ESSAYS IN POST-POLITICAL POLITICS (2003), both from Autonomedia.