General Idea of the Revolution in the XXI Century
* Book: Exodus: General Idea of the Revolution in the XXI Century. By Kevin Carson. (upcoming, draft version September 2016)
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Contents
Chapter 1. The Age of Mass and Maneuver
I. A Conflict of Visions: (both prefigurative visions and visions based on mass and hierarchy coexisted within the nineteenth century)
II. The Triumph of Mass in the Old Left: (focus on organizational size and coordination, insurrectionary assault to capture institutions)
III. The Assault on Working Class Agency
IV. Workerism/Laborism
Chapter 2. The Transition
(technological changes that have made a focus on mass and insurrection obsolete)
I. Cheap, ephemeral production technology, the social factory, and the primacy of social relationships as a source of value
II. Networked communications and free information
III. The impotence of enforcement, and the primacy of circumvention over resistance
Chapter 3. The Age of Exodus ; 1: Horizontalism and Self-Activity over Vanguard Institutions
I. The New Left
II. Autonomism
III. The 1968 Movements and the Transition to Horizontalist Praxis
IV. The Post-1994 Horizontalist Movements