George Caffentzis

George Caffentzis (born 1945) is an American political philosopher and an autonomist Marxist.^[1] He founded the Midnight Notes Collective,^[2] is a founder member of the co-ordinator of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa^[3] and a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern Maine.^[4] His partner is Silvia Federici.

• Parole abusate, monete tosate e governo civile. La filosofia del denaro di John Locke, Istituto dell' Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani, Rome, Italy, 1988.
• Clipped Coins, Abused Words and Civil Government: John Locke's Philosophy of Money (New York: Autonomedia/ Semiotext(e) Press, 1989).
• Midnight Oil: Work, Energy, War, 1973–1992, (New York: Autonomedia, 1992) (co-edited). A chapter from Midnight Oil, "Introduction to The New Enclosures," was reprinted in David Solnit (ed.), Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2004), pp. 61–72.
• A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities, (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2000) (co-edited).
• Exciting the Industry of Mankind: George Berkeley's Philosophy of Money (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000).
• Auroras of the Zapatistas: Local and Global Struggles in the Fourth World War, (New York: Autonomedia, 2001) (co-edited).
• In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and Value, (Oakland: PM Press, 2013).

• Midnight Notes Collective
• George Caffentzis' page at the University of Southern Maine
• George Caffenzis page at LibCom
• Tribute to George Caffentzis in The Commoner
• Review of 'A Thousand Flowers – Social Struggles against Structural Adjustment in African Universities' by Refilwe Senatla and Fazel Khan