Nonfiction. Starting from the political crisis arising from the clipping of silver currency by monetary pirates in 17th-century England, Caffentzis opens out into an original and very provocative critique of John Locke's ecomic beliefs, his theories of language, and his philosophy of history and the state. Virtually all of the standard critical work on Locke is undone through Caffentzis' ampliative treatment - which also extends to intervene in the leading debates in the monetary theories of the present day.
