** 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[12]

**** 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 (Operaismo)

**** 1.4 From Class to Individuals

*** § 2: Facing the Conundrum

*** § 3: The Common Good

*** § 4: “Adieu to disappointment and spleen” (Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice)

*** § 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 (When the Disease Becomes the Medicine)

*** § 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

*** § 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?[79]

*** § 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”[95]

*** § 4: Crossover Identity Politics

*** § 5: The Proletariat as a Contradiction

** ABOUT THE AUTHOR