From crisis to communisation / Gilles Dauve.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dauve, Gilles, 1947- author.

Series:

Revolutionary pocketbooks ; no. 3.

Revolutionary pocketbooks ; no. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communitarianism.

Communism--History.

Communism.

Radical theory--History.

Radical theory.

Social change.

Crises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2019]

Summary:

This book explores the concept of communisation, examining its historical roots and contemporary implications. It delves into the evolution of communist theory and practice, particularly focusing on the revolutionary movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The author's purpose is to critique and analyze the notion of communisation as a response to capitalist crises, highlighting its ideological shifts and relevance in modern times. The book is intended for readers interested in political theory, revolutionary history, and the dynamics of social movements. It provides a comprehensive analysis of how communisation has been perceived as a solution to systemic crises and its potential as a transformative force in society. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Half Title

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

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

5: The Proletariat as a Contradiction

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ISBN:

9781629633039

1629633038

OCLC:

1057550199