Eclipse and re-emeregence of the communist movement

Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the Japanese Edition of No. 1 and No. 2 of Le Mouvement Communiste; Foreword to the 1974 Black & Red Edition; Foreworld: Out of the Future (1997); 1. The Untraceable; 2. Wall Street v. Berlin Wall; 3. 1968 and All That; 4. Working Man's Blues; 5. High Hopes ... ; Chapter 1: Capitalism and Communism; 1. Wage-Labour as a Social Relation; 2. "Value" as a Destroyer ... and Promoter of Community; 3. Commodity; 4. Capital; 5. A World of Companies; 6. Bureaucratic (or "State") Capitalism; 7. Crisis; 8. Proletariat and Revolution. 9. Communism as the End of Economy and Work10. Communisation; 11. States and How to Get Rid of Them; 12. Democracy?; 13. Break on through (to the Other Side); Chapter 2: The Class Struggle and Its Most Characteristic Aspects in Recent Years; 1. May 1968, France; 2. Strikes and Workers' Struggles Since 1968; 3. The Two Most Characteristic Aspects of the Strikes; 4. Forms of Action Which Cannot Be Recuperated: Sabotage and "Down-timing"; 5. Parties and Unions in the Face of the Communist Perspective; Chapter 3: A Crash Course in Ultra-Leftology; 1. Out of the Past. 2. Beyond Words and Beyond Belief3. The German-Dutch Left; 4. Bordiga; 5. The Salient Point; Chapter 4: Leninism and the Ultra-Left; 1. Party or Council?; 2. Managing What?; 3. The Historical Limit of the Ultra-Left; Chapter 5: Value, Time, and Communism: Re-reading Marx; 1. The Origin of Value; 2. Work Abolished, or Work as Our Prime Want?; 3. Time as Measure; 4. Community Planning; 5. Council Communism and Labour Time; 6. Bordiga's Critique; 7. Does Value Abolish Itself?; 8. Marx as a Marxist; Chapter 6: The Bitter Victory of Councilism; Chapter 7: Postlude. 1. Revolutionary Optimism and Historical Determinism2. What Heritage Do We Renounce?; 3. "Class": What Class?; 4. Surge; 5. The Proletariat as a Contradiction; Notes; About the Authors