Wageless Life
A Manifesto for a Future beyond Capitalism
Ian G. R. Shaw and Marv Waterstone
Wageless Life is a manifesto for building a future beyond the toxic failures of late-stage capitalism. Daring to imagine new social relations, new modes of economic existence, and new collective worlds, the authors provide skills and tools for perceiving—and living in—a post-capitalist future.
This lucid and penetrating study not only lays bare the critical features of our decaying social order and its historical roots, but also provides valuable guidelines for the task of ‘seizing our autonomy back’ in a world of justice, freedom, communal life, and human dignity. Perceptive and enlightening, and a ray of light in dark times.
Noam Chomsky
To live in this world is to be conditioned by capital. Once paired with Western democracy, unfettered capitalism has led to a shrinking economic system that squeezes out billions of people—creating a planet of surplus populations. Wageless Life is a manifesto for building a future beyond the toxic failures of late-stage capitalism. Daring to imagine new social relations, new modes of economic existence, and new collective worlds, the authors provide skills and tools for perceiving—and living in—a post-capitalist future.
$10.00 paper ISBN 978-1-5179-0926-0
$4.95 ISBN 978-1-4529-6347-1
142 pages, 5 x 7, 2019
Ian G. R. Shaw is lecturer in human geography at University of Glasgow. He is author of Predator Empire (Minnesota, 2016).
Marv Waterstone is professor emeritus in the School of Geography and Development at University of Arizona.
This lucid and penetrating study not only lays bare the critical features of our decaying social order and its historical roots, but also provides valuable guidelines for the task of ‘seizing our autonomy back’ in a world of justice, freedom, communal life, and human dignity. Perceptive and enlightening, and a ray of light in dark times.
Noam Chomsky
Contents
Introduction: The Coming Storm
Capital’s Morbid Symptoms
Surplus Populations
Ground Zero
A Worldless Planet
The Geographies of Surplus Life
The Wretched of the Earth
Sites of Radical Praxis and Survival
Reclaiming Desire
The Right to the World
Alter-Worlds: A Manifesto
Last Thoughts: The Alienated
Acknowledgments
Works Cited