From Crisis to Communisation : Dauvé, Gilles, 1947- author

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Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Communisation and My Discontent; Chapter 1: Legacy; 1: Back to the 1960s-70s; 2: Three Steps to Capitalist Dominion; 3: Excursus; 3.1: Back to ’68; 3.2: The General Strike, an Eye-Opener; 3.3: Maturation; 3.4: Portugal and Poland: Inextricable Problem and Solution; Chapter 2: Birth of a Notion; 1: End of Classism; 1.1 Classism in Crisis; 1.2 Class Out of Fashion; 1.3 The All-Inclusive Class; 1.4 From Class to Individuals; 2: Facing the Conundrum; 3: The Common Good; 4: Adieu to Disappointment and Spleen; 5: In a Nutshell

6: If It’s That Simple, Why …? 7: The Word; Chapter 3: Work Undone; Road Work Unreal; 1: Working Substance; 1.1: Work Is Class; 1.2: Work Reduces Every Activity to a Common Substance; 1.3: Wage-Labour Turns Work into a Commodity; 1.4: Work Is Separation; 1.5: Work Is Productivity and Accountancy; 1.6: Work Is Reducing Everything to a Minimum of Time; 1.7: Under the Rule of Work; 2: Neither Work nor Economy; 2.1: Production Is Not Economy; 2.2: Communism as Activity; Chapter 4: Crisis of Civilisation; 1: Why “Civilisation”?; 2: A European Civil War

3: How Capitalism Globalised Its Crisis of the 1960s and ’70s 4: Neoliberalism Fallacy; 5: Wages, Price, and Profit; 6: The Impossibility of Reducing Everything to Time; 7: Shareholder Capitalism; 8: A Class Out of Joint; 9: The Money God That Fails; 10: Quantifying the Qualitative; 11: Forbidden Planet?; 12: No Capitalist Self-Reform; 13: Deadlock; 14: No “Creative Destruction” … Yet; 15: Social Reproduction, So Far … ; Chapter 5: Trouble in Class; 1: Resistance; 1.1: The Autonomy Paradox; 1.2: Autonomy/Communisation; 1.3: Labour Movement Resurgence

1.4: Proletarian Drive and Bourgeois Outcome 2: Going Beyond Class?; 2.1: Occupy/Transform; 2.2: Radical-Reformist Complication; 3: Communism as Ideology; 4: The Improbable Art of Crisis Assessment; 5: No Revolutionary Subject without Subjectivity; Chapter 6: Creative Insurrection 103; 1: An Anti-work and Anti-proletarian Insurrection?; 1.1: Self-Critique of Work; 1.2: Anti-proletarian Acts; 2: From Work to Activity?; 3: How Will Communisation Satisfy People’s Basic Needs?; 4: Abundance v. Scarcity?; 5: A World without Money?; 6: Parasitic Activities?

7: Too Late to Save the Planet? 8: Daily Life Changes or Big Issues?; 9: From Worker to After-Dinner Critic?; 10: What about Gender?; 11: What about Violence?; 12: Who Would Be the Communisers?; 13: Reaching the Tipping Point?; 14: How Relevant Is This Questions and Answers List?; Chapter 7: A Veritable Split; 1: Polemics; 2: It Takes More Than a Step Aside; 3: Decoupling Proletarian from Worker; 3.1 The Two-Stage Postulate; 3.2 What Worker Identity?; 3.3 The Great Simplifier; 3.4 The Ratchet Effect; 3.5 “I Bring You Good Tidings”; 4: Crossover Identity Politics