Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “‘Manifesto of the Communist Party,” in Karl Marx, The Revolutions of 1848 (London: Verso, 2010), 70. See also Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity (New York: Penguin, 1988).
Richard Barbrook, Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village (London: Pluto Press, 2007).
Although this was the path taken in my A Hacker Manifesto (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004). See also Richard Barbrook, The Class of the New (London: Mute, 2006), on various past attempts to reimagine class.
For example, see Dennis Altman, Oppression and Liberation (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2012); Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex (London: Verso, 2015); Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000).
Erik Olin Wright, Classes (London: Verso, 1998).
David Ricardo, On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962).
J. D. Bernal, Science in History Vol. 2 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1978), 410ff.
Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy (Brooklyn: Verso, 2013).
For political economies of second and third nature, respectively, see: Michel Aglietta, A Theory of Capitalist Regulation (London: Verso, 2001); Yann Moulier Boutang, Cognitive Capitalism (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012).
See David Noble, America By Design: Science, Technology and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979).
See Manuel Castells, Communication Power (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
Dan Schiller, How To Think About Information (Champaign-Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2010), has a fine account of the struggle to break up America’s telephony monopoly in the late twentieth century, which I read as a failed attempt to curtail the power of a rising vectoralist class.