Preface xiii
Part I The Leadership Problem 1
Chapter 1 Where Have All the Leaders Gone? 3
"Errors" of the Communards 3
False assumption: Critique of leadership - refusal of organization and institution 6
Leaderless movements as symptoms of a historical shift 8
Chapter 2 Strategy and Tactics of the Centaur 15
Museum of revolutions past 16
First call: Strategy to the movements 18
A party of movements? 22
Chapter 3 Contra Rousseau; or, Pour en finir avec la souveraineté 25
Critique of representation 27
Critique of constituent power 32
Second call: Invent nonsovereign institutions 37
First response: Ground political projects in social life 39
Against the autonomy of the political 42
Chapter 4 The Dark Mirror of Right-Wing Movements 47
To restore the unity of the people 48
Populism and racialized property 51
The violence of religious identities 53
Poverty as wealth 57
Chapter 5 The Real Problem Lies Elsewhere 63
Blow the dam! 63
Second response: Seek the plural ontology of cooperative coalitions 67
Third call: Take power, but differently 69
Marxism against Das Kapital 72
Part II Social Production 77
What does "from below" mean? 78
Chapter 6 How to Open Property to the Common 85
A bundle of rights 86
The social properties of labor 91
Third response: The common is not property 97
Fable of the bees; or, passions of the common 100
Chapter 7 We, Machinic Subjects 107
The relation of human and machine 107
The changing composition of capital 111
Fourth call: Take back fixed capital ("This fixed capital being man himself") 115
Machinic subjectivities 120
Chapter 8 Weber in Reverse 125
Weber's dream and Kafka's nightmare 126
Sine ira et studio 128
Digital Taylorism 131
Fourth response: Smash the state 133
The end of Mitteleuropa 134
Chapter 9 Entrepreneurship of the Multitude 139
How to become an entrepreneur 140
Fifth call: Entrepreneurship of the multitude 143
Social production → social union → social strike 147
Taking the word as translation 151
Part III Financial Command and Neoliberal Governance 155
Chapter 10 Finance Captures Social Value 159
Finance from above and from below 159
Abstraction/extraction 162
The many faces of extraction 166
From social production to finance 171
Logistics and infrastructure in the social factory 175
Marxist debates 1 Primitive accumulation 178
Chapter 11 Money Institutionalizes a Social Relation 183
What is money and how does it rule? 184
Objektiver Geist 193
On private property and its dematerialization 196
Crises arise from below 200
Marxist debates 2 Crisis 203
Chapter 12 Neoliberal Administration Out of Joint 207
Neoliberal freedom 208
Crisis points of neoliberal administration 212
Emptying the public powers 218
Fifth response: Produce powerful subjectivities 222
Part IV New Prince 227
Chapter 13 Political Realism 231
Power comes second 231
The common comes first 235
General strike 240
Extremism of the center 245
Chapter 14 Impossible Reformism 251
Fixing the system 252
Instituting counterpowers 254
Indignation in the fog of war 258
Empire today 263
Chapter 15 And Now What? 269
A Hephaestus to arm the multitude 269
A three-faced Dionysus to govern the common 274
A Hermes to forge the coin of the common 280
Chapter 16 Portolan 285
Wealth 285
Institution 288
Organization 290
Exhortario 293
Notes 297
Acknowledgments 337
Index