Review by mars2k - Omnia Sunt Communia: On the Commons and the Transformation to Postcapitalism

mars2k 's review for:

Omnia Sunt Communia: On the Commons and the Transformation to Postcapitalism by Massimo De Angelis, Massimo de Angelis

2.0

slow-paced

Omnia Sunt Communia is dense, dry, boring. It somehow feels both over-explanatory and poorly explained – De Angelis doesn’t do a very good job of explaining what he means by terms like “commons” and “commoning,” which are kind of the crux of the book. The diagrams make things more confusing rather than less. The author also presupposes the reader’s familiarity with various economists and philosophers, some of whom I’d never heard of let alone read their works. At first I was frantically looking up unfamiliar concepts and trying to make sense of them; as the book went on, however, I stopped caring and just accepted the fact I wouldn’t understand half of what was said.

I don’t know... It’s not a bad book per se but I feel like I didn’t get much from it. Hopefully someone else will enjoy it more than I did.

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