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The Dispossessed - Karl Marx’s Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor (Hardcover)
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The Dispossessed - Karl Marx’s Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor (Hardcover)
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Excavating Marx’s early writings to rethink the rights of the
poor and the idea of the commons in an era of unprecedented
privatization The politics of dispossession are everywhere.
Troubling developments in intellectual property, genomics, and
biotechnology are undermining established concepts of property,
while land appropriation and ecological crises reconfigure basic
institutions of ownership. In The Dispossessed, Daniel Bensaïd
examines Karl Marx’s early writings to establish a new framework
for addressing the rights of the poor, the idea of the commons, and
private property as a social institution. In his series of articles
from 1842–43 about Rhineland parliamentary debates over the
privatization of public lands and criminalization of poverty under
the rubric of the “theft of wood,” Marx identified broader
anxieties about customary law, property rights, and capitalist
efforts to privatize the commons. Bensaïd studies these writings
to interrogate how dispossession continues to function today as a
key modality of power. Brilliantly tacking between past and
present, The Dispossessed discloses continuity and rupture in our
relationships to property and, through that, to one another. In
addition to Bensaïd’s prescient work of political philosophy,
The Dispossessed includes new translations of Marx’s original
“theft of wood” articles and an introductory essay by Robert
Nichols that lucidly contextualizes the essays.
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