George S. Rigakos
- Affiliation: Carleton University
Books by George S. Rigakos
The Communist Manifesto (Illustrated)
Chapter Two: The Bourgeoisie
Edited by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, George S. Rigakos
”The bourgeoisie... compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image.” (more information)
General Police System
Political Economy and Security in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Joshua Johnson, John McMullan, Gulden Ozcan, George S. Rigakos
While contemporary inquiries into theoretical linkages between political economy and security are rare, the exploration of these connections formed the cornerstone of political, social and economic philosophy during the upheavals of post-feudal Europe. “A General Police System”, a term borrowed from the late eighteenth century thinker Patrick Colquhoun, examines the overlapping genealogies of commerce, security, surveillance and the problem of poverty in the works of foundational English… (more information)
Communist Manifesto (Illustrated)
Chapter One: Historical Materialism
Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, George S. Rigakos, Red Viktor
”A spectre is haunting Europe–the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies...” (more information)
Anti-Security
Edited by Mark Neocleous, George S. Rigakos
Security has reached an analytic blockage. The more security seems post-political, post-social, or even post-modern the more it escapes analytic scrutiny. The more security attaches itself to innumerable social relationships the more it becomes the very glue that binds social reality. Social problems become security problems while projects of pacification continue to be legitimized under the rubric of security. To be against security today is to stand against the entire global economic system. If… (more information)