** Preface

*** You know it is a book if it weighs a quarter pound.

*** If we cannot possess it entirely, we also cannot flee it.

*** An archaeology of ourselves

*** Where one aims the missile of one’s self

*** Writing techniques

*** Psychology.

*** From inside, looking out

*** The measure of what we have contributed

*** On Crisis

*** Anyone can write a book

** Preamble

*** This is the definition of class hatred

*** Introduction

** Nihilist communism: some basic elaborations

*** This is the fable of the thirsty crow

*** Introducing Monsieur Dupont

*** We start, as we end, in simplicity

*** Basic statement

*** On consciousness

*** A qualification

*** “Working class consciousness”?

*** Further thoughts and explanations

*** Summary and counter-interpretation

*** The dictatorship of the proletariat

*** Groups

*** Is Lenin on sale again?

*** Identity politics

*** Militants and otherness

*** Political priorities and consciousness

*** On economic determinism and autonomism

*** The revolutionary subject

*** A recap of our perspective

*** No way out

** Appendices

*** The Optimism of Revolutionaries

*** Language and consciousness

** Recent Interventions

*** May Days, Palestine and the material base

**** Jour de Fete avec Monsieur Dupont

*** The Ticklish Matter

*** The ticklish matter

*** Reply to “The Real Movement” (Red and Black Notes, Toronto, 2002)

*** To get over the wall we first have to get to the wall

*** Some Notes Concerning Future Proletarian Insurgency

**** The Dynamics of “Protest” Seen in the Recent Petrol Blockades in Britain

*** Only we can prevent mythology

*** Do you want to be, or don’t you want to be...soft, like me...?

**** Part One

**** Part Two

**** Part Three

*** Dear Freedom?

*** More on anti-imperialism

*** We’re all Claire Short now

*** Something on political ‘activism’

**** 1

**** 2

**** 3

**** 4

**** 6

**** 7

*** Seminar 4: On the Prefix Pro- and Pessimism (Revised version)

** Glossary

** Cruelty or The Inclusion of the Distributive Sphere

*** Feint

*** Thrust

*** Parry

*** The inescapable condition

*** So far we have considered the inescapable condition now we turn our attention to cost effective individuality, we call it expressivity

*** How many of you are there?

*** Stop thinking Expressivity, start thinking Transcendence