** Chapter 1: Some Facts of Life

*** Utopia or bust

*** Stalinist “communism” and reformist “socialism” are merely variants of capitalism

*** Representative democracy versus delegate democracy

*** Irrationalities of capitalism

*** Some exemplary modern revolts

*** Some common objections

*** Increasing dominance of the spectacle

** Chapter 2: Foreplay

*** Personal breakthroughs

*** Critical interventions

*** Theory versus ideology

*** Avoiding false choices and elucidating real ones

*** The insurrectionary style

*** Radical film

*** Oppressionism versus playfulness

*** The Strasbourg scandal

*** The poverty of electoral politics

*** Reforms and alternative institutions

*** Political correctness, or equal opportunity alienation

*** Drawbacks of moralism and simplistic extremism

*** Advantages of boldness

*** Advantages and limits of nonviolence

** Chapter 3: Climaxes

*** Causes of social breakthroughs

*** Postwar upheavals

*** Effervescence of Radical Situations

*** Popular self-organization

*** The situationists in May 1968

*** Workerism is obsolete, but workers’ position remains pivotal

*** Wildcats and sitdowns

*** Consumer strikes

*** What could have happened in May 1968

*** Methods of confusion and cooption

*** Terrorism reinforces the state

*** The ultimate showdown

*** Internationalism

** Chapter 4: Rebirth

*** Utopians fail to envision postrevolutionary diversity

*** Decentralization and coordination

*** Safeguards against abuses

*** Consensus, majority rule and unavoidable hierarchies

*** Eliminating the roots of war and crime

*** Abolishing money

*** Absurdity of most present-day labor

*** Transforming work into play

*** Technophobic objections

*** Ecological issues

*** The blossoming of free communities

*** More interesting problems