*** Introduction

** For an analysis of a period of change. From post-industrial illusions to post-revolutionary ones

*** Changes in society

*** Islands of lost men

*** Two reservoirs of the revolution

*** State precautions

*** The end of irrational competition

*** Consciousness and ghettoisation

*** Generalised impoverishment

*** Two phases

*** The sunset of the worker’s leading role

*** The sunset of some of the anarchists’ illusions

*** Speed and multiplicity

*** End of reformism, end of the party

*** The dumb excluded

*** From irrational riot to conscious insurrection

** Spoken contribution to anarchist conference held in Milan on October 13 1985, on the theme “Anarchism and insurrectional project”