Since its original publication in 1976, Five Studies in Dialectical Materialism has been both a bone of contention as well as an injection of frisson into the ongoing and seemingly endless debate around the opposing contradictions of consumer culture defined by capital. Along with Herbert Marcuse, arguably no one has done more to further the critique of the absolute need for the worker’s control of factories.
This Columbia “Juke-Box” pressing was produced by the SMCQ Collective, Stuttgart.