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Front cover 1 About the author 3 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgements 7 INTRODUCTION | Crises of the imagination 8 Method 15 Struggles 18 Commons 27 Imagination 31 ONE | Reimagining value 35 The right-wing values backlash 38 The left’s (generally pitiful) attempts to reclaim value 43 Contextualizing Marx’s theory of value 45 Value as labour 48 The commodification of social values 56 The truth about values 59 Relative worthlessness and capitalism as (a)moral system 62 Neoliberal globalization and left institutionalism 65 Values are practices, not ideals 70 Feminists and Black Panthers 72 Reclaiming value: workers’ centres, anti‐foreclosure movements and eco-communities 75 Reclaiming the value of the imagination 79 TWO | Publics, commons, occupations 81 The public residues of common struggles 82 The fall of the public 88 Critiques of the public 90 The rise of the commons 96 The promise of the occupations 101 Making the commons public and the public common 105 THREE | The crisis of the financialized imagination 111 What is financialization? 113 Prices and values 116 The politics of financialization 119 A financialized society 121 Finance as culture 126 Finance capi

Author

Max Haiven

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