Reviews

The Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself by Peter Fleming

grubnubble's review against another edition

3.0

For a book that is only 200 pages long, there is still a lot of unnecessary philosophical fluff fuckery. Some great ideas, but Fleming doesn’t seem to have a consistent audience in mind. It’s oftentimes unreadably filled with academic jargon and at other moments intimate and informal as Fleming reveals personal stories in a “fuck it, let’s curse now” style.

If you hate reading philosophy as much as I do, I recommend skipping the last chapter (Critique of Dialogical Reason) and maybe watching the movie Fight Club instead. I can’t say why, but the chapter had a distinctly Fight Club vibe. The last bit about Carmen Segarra is the only interesting part of that chapter.

Still, the ideas are good and goddamnit if I don’t love reading anything by an author who speaks Marxism.

mxgancxtherine's review against another edition

read this for a summative don't mind me (still good tho I'd read it for fun)

lindsaysofia_25's review

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

This was a very intelligent and well done work of theory. It was somewhat dry at times but at others the author showed wit and made it a little more consumable. It certainly helped me articulate my thoughts about work and encouraged me to reflect on my vision of the antiwork movement. I think this would have been more effective read in some sort of discussion group because it is quite dense so it would be better understood when aided by group discussion on the content. Overall I highly recommend this to anyone interested in antiwork politics, but I would warn any reader that Fleming does assume some understanding of the movement and of leftist philosophy, making it not really an introductory work.