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1. Bill Fletcher and Fernando Gapasin, Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice (London: University of California Press, 2009), p. 174.

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it privation, want is merely made general, and with want the struggle for necessities would begin again, and all the old filthy business would necessarily be restored’. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology (London: Prometheus, 1976), p. 54.

1. This appeal to a humanity outside of capitalism is one of the more problematic aspects of Jacques Camatte’s work, for instance. See Jacques Camatte, This World We Must Leave (Brooklyn: (Semiotexte), 1996).

1. Weeks, Problem with Work, p. 169.

1. Ernest Mandel, Late Capitalism (London: Verso, 1998), pp. 394–5.

1. Translation slightly modified – from ‘human energy’ to ‘human powers’. Marx, Capital, Volume III, p. 820.

1. Federico Campagna, The Last Night: Anti-Work, Atheism, Adventure (Winchester: Zero, 2013), p. 68.

1. For some investigations into what these could look like, however, see Alexandra Kollontai, Selected Writings, transl. Alix Holt (London: Allison & Busby, 1977).

1. Stephen Eric Bronner, Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), p. 15.

1. Weeks, Problem with Work, p. 103.

1. Benjamin Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015).

1. Tiziana Terranova, ‘Red Stack Attack!’, in Robin Mackay and Armen Avanessian, eds, #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader (Falmouth: Urbanomic, 2014), pp. 391–3.

1. Accounts of daily life under participatory economics make for sobering reading. See Michael Albert, Parecon: Life After Capitalism (London: Verso, 2004), Part 3.

1. Nick Dyer-Witheford, ‘Red Plenty Platforms’, Culture Machine 14 (2013), p. 13.

1. Measured in terms of floating operations per second, the difference between 1969 and what is expected by 2019 is 10⁷ versus 10¹⁸. Ibid., p. 8.

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1968, 16–7, 63, 188n33
15M, 11, 22
abstraction, 10, 15, 36, 44, 81
additive manufacturing, 110, 143, 150, 182
affect, 7–8, 113–4, 140–1
afro-futurism, 139, 141
AI (artificial intelligence), 110, 143
alienation, 14–5, 82
algorithmic trading, 111
Allende, Salvador, 148, 149
alternativism, 194n95
Althusser, Louis, 81, 141–2
anti-globalisation, 3, 159, 162
anti-war, 3, 5, 22, 162
Apple, 146,
Arab Spring, 131, 159
Argentina, 37–9, 173
authenticity, 10–1, 15, 27, 82, 180
automation, 1–2, 86, 88–9, 94–5, 97–8, 104–5, 109–17, 122, 127, 130, 143, 150–1, 167, 171–4, 181–2, 203n15, 212n121, 214n161, 215n9,
218n45
banking, 43–6, 61, 147
Beveridge Report, 118
big data, 110, 111
Bolshevik Revolution, 131
Bolsheviks, 137
Russian Revolution, 139
Brazil, 75, 119, 147, 157, 169
Bretton Woods, 61–2
Brown, Michael, 173
care labour, 113–4
Chicago School, 51, 59–60
Chile, 52, 62, 148, 149, 150
China, 87, 89, 97, 170
class, 14, 16–7, 20–1, 25, 53, 64–5, 87, 91, 96–102, 116, 120, 122–3, 126–7, 132–3, 155–62, 170, 173–4, 189n1, 206n44, 233n119, 233n4,
233n5, 234n18
Cleaver, Eldridge, 91–2
climate change, 13–4, 116
colonialism, 73, 75–6, 96–7, 225n3
common sense, 9–11, 21–2, 40, 54–5, 58–60, 63–7, 72, 131–7
communisation, 92, 225n5
competitive subjects, 63–5, 99, 124
complex systems, 13–4,
conspiracy theories, 14–5
cosmism, 139
Critchley, Simon, 72
cryptocurrencies, 143, 182
Cybersyn, 149–150
debt, 9, 22, 35–6, 94
demands, 6–7, 30, 33, 107–8, 130, 159–62, 167
no demands, 7, 34–5, 107, 186n3
non-reformist demands, 108
transitional demands, 215n5
democracy, 31–3, 182
direct democracy, 27–9, 31–3, 164, 190n8
direct action, 6, 11, 27–9, 35–6
education, 64, 99, 104, 141–5, 165–6
Egypt, 32–4, 190n21
energy, 2, 16,19,41, 42–43, 116, 147, 148, 150–51, 164, 171, 178, 179, 182, 183
Engels, Friedrich, 79
Erhard, Ludwig, 57
ethics, 42
work ethic, 124–6
evictions, 8, 12, 36
feminism, 18–21, 122, 138, 161
Fisher, Antony, 58–9, 196n34
food miles, 42–3
fracking, 8
France, 17, 62, 149, 167
free time, 80, 115–6, 120–1, 167, 219n50
freedom, 63–5, 120–1, 126–7, 180–1
negative freedom, 79
synthetic freedom, 78–83
Friedman, Milton, 56, 59–61
full employment, 98–100
future, 1, 71–5, 175–8, 181–3
G20, 6, 94
gender, 21, 41, 90, 122
Germany, 45, 56–7
ghettos, 95–6
Gramsci, Antonio, 132, 165
Graeber, David, 33
grand narratives, 73–4
Great Depression, 46, 65, 99–101, 114–5
Harvey, David, 135
Hayek, Friedrich, 54–6
Holzer, Jenny, 175, 178
horizontalism, 18, 26–39
housing, 8, 28, 35, 48, 77, 80, 95, 96, 148, 159, 167, 168,
humanism, 81–3, 180–1
hyperstition, 74–5, 138–9
Iceland, 34, 164
idleness, 85–6
immediacy, 10–1
immigration, 101–2, 161
India, 87, 97–8, 130
inequality, 22, 80, 93–4
informal economy, 95–8, 203n10, 206n44, 210n95
Institute of Economic Affairs, 58–9
Iranian Revolution, 131
Jameson, Fredric, 14, 92, 198n10
Japan, 147
Jimmy Reid Foundation, 117
jobless recovery, 94–5
Jobs, Steve, 179
Johnson, Boris, 172
Kalecki, Michał, 120
Krugman, Paul, 118
labour, 2, 3,9, 17, 20, 21, 33, 38, 48, 52, 58, 61–3, 74, 79, 81, 83, 85–143, 148, 150, 151, 156–8, 161, 163–181, 182
Laclau, Ernesto, 155, 159
Lafargue, Paul, 115,
language, 81, 132, 160, 164–5
leisure, 85–6
Leninism, 17, 131, 188n33
Live Aid, 8
localism, 40–6
locavorism, 41–2
Lucas Aerospace, 147
Luxemburg, Rosa, 15
Lyotard, Francois, 73, 74
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 58, 59
marches, 6, 30, 49
Marikana massacre, 170
Marinaleda, 48
Marx, Karl, 73, 79, 85, 86, 92, 115, 119, 121, 122, 132, 142, 156, 158, 180
Mattick, Paul, 92, 118
media, 2, 7–8, 31, 36, 52, 58, 60, 63, 67, 88, 118, 125–6, 129, 133–5, 163–5, 176, 182
Mirowski, Philip, 66
modernity, 23, 63, 69–85, 86, 131, 176, 181
modernisation, 23, 60, 63, 137, 174
Mont Pelerin Society, 54, 86, 134, 164, 166
MPS, 55, 56, 58, 66, 67, 134
Move Your Money, 44
Murray, Charles, 59
Musk, Elon, 179
National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, 172
negative solidarity, 20, 37
neoliberalism, 3, 12, 20–3, 47, 49, 51–67, 70, 72, 108, 116, 117, 119, 121, 124, 134, 141, 142, 148, 156, 176, 179, 183
neoliberal, 7, 9, 14–16, 20, 21, 37, 47, 49, 73, 93, 99, 118, 126, 127, 129, 131–2, 134, 135, 162, 169, 174, 176, 181
New Economics Foundation, 117, 144
new left, 18–22
New Zealand, 151
occupations, 5, 7, 10, 11, 29–31, 34, 49, 94, 172
Occupy Wall Street, 3, 6, 7, 11, 18, 22, 26, 29–38, 126, 133, 158, 159, 160, 162, 189n1
ordoliberals, 54, 57
organic intellectual, 165–6
Overton Window, 134, 139
Partido dos Trabalhadores, 169
parties, political, 2, 10, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 30, 34, 39, 46, 59, 105, 116, 118, 124, 129, 162, 164, 168, 169
personal savings, 94
Piketty, Thomas, 140
Plan C, 117
planning, 1, 15, 56, 141, 142, 149, 151, 182
Plant, Sadie, 82
Podemos, 159, 160, 169
police, 6, 30, 33, 36, 37, 102, 133, 161, 168, 171, 173
postcapitalism, 17, 38, 130, 143, 145, 150, 151, 158, 168, 178, 180
postcapitalist, 12, 15, 16, 32, 34, 83, 109, 115, 126, 136, 143, 145, 150, 152, 153, 157, 179, 180
Post-Crash Economic Society, 143
post-work, 23, 69, 83, 85, 86, 105, 107–127, 129, 130, 138, 140, 141, 153, 155, 156, 158, 161, 163, 164, 167, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178
Pou Chen Group, 170
power, 1, 2, 7, 9, 10, 14, 15, 18–21, 26, 28–30, 33, 36, 43, 46, 48, 49, 59, 61, 62, 65, 73, 78, 79, 80, 81, 87, 88, 93, 100, 108, 111, 116, 120,
123, 127, 130–5, 146, 148, 151, 153, 155–74, 175, 176, 179, 180, 182
precarity, 9, 86, 88, 93, 94, 95, 98, 104, 121, 123, 126, 130, 156, 157, 166, 167, 173, 174
precarious, 2, 64, 117, 129, 167
Precarious Workers Brigade, 117
premature deindustrialisation, 97, 98
primitive accumulation, 87, 89, 90, 96, 97
prison, 90, 102, 103, 119, 133
incarceration, 102, 103, 104, 105, 161
productivity, 74, 88, 97, 110–17, 125, 150, 167
progress, 21, 23, 46, 71–5, 77, 107, 114, 115, 120, 126, 131, 138, 179, 180
protests, 1, 7, 18, 22, 28, 31, 37, 49, 66, 153, 164
psychopathologies, 64
radio-frequency identification, 110
race, 14, 31, 90, 102, 103, 140, 156, 171, 172
Reagan, Ronald, 60, 62, 66, 70
Republican Party (US), 135
resistance, 2, 5, 12, 15, 30, 35, 46–8, 49, 69, 72, 74, 83, 114, 124, 134, 158, 173, 181
Rethinking Economics, 143
Robinson, Joan, 87
Roboticisation, 110, 209n69
mechanisation, 95, 101
Rolling Jubilee, 9
Samuelson, Paul, 142
second machine age, 111

Index

secular stagnation, 143

self-driving cars, 110, 111, 113, 173

shadow work, 115

slavery, 74, 90, 95, 103

slow food, 41, 42

slum, 86, 96–8, 102, 104

social democracy, 3, 17, 46, 66, 70, 167, 176 social democratic, 10, 13, 16, 17, 19, 21, 22, 47, 57, 72, 80, 98, 100, 108, 123, 127, 168

social media, 1, 8, 182

South Africa, 119, 157, 170

Spain, 12, 22, 34, 35, 45, 159, 164

stagflation, 19, 27, 61, 65, 100

strikes, 9, 10, 28, 36, 37, 116, 120, 157, 167, 170–3

surplus populations, 40, 86, 88–94, 96–97, 101–3, 104, 105, 120, 130, 166–7, 173, 203n10

Syriza, 159, 160

tactics, 6, 10, 11, 15, 18, 19, 26, 28, 39, 40, 49, 157, 164, 171–4

Tahrir Square, 32, 34

Taylorism, 152

technology, 1, 3, 72, 81, 88, 89, 98, 109, 110, 111, 129, 136, 137, 145–8, 150–3, 178, 179, 182

Thatcher, Margaret, 59, 60, 62, 66, 70, 72, 100

think tanks, 16, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60, 63, 67, 117, 134, 135, 165

trade unions, 10, 27, 47, 59, 61, 62, 71, 105, 116, 117, 124, 129, 148, 162, 166 labour unions, 16, 171 unions, 17, 18, 20, 27, 30, 44

UK Uncut, 126

United Automobile Workers, 170

UK, 8, 20, 40, 42, 45, 52, 54, 56, 58, 61, 62, 92, 93, 94, 117, 118, 126, 144, 147, 151, 172

United States, 8, 18, 29, 36, 44, 45, 59, 62, 78, 92, 95, 103, 114, 118, 123, 133, 135, 138, 167

America, 6, 16, 30, 38, 47, 56, 62, 76, 95, 97, 98, 100, 101, 102, 103, 110, 164

universal basic income, 108, 118, 123, 127, 140, 143 basic income, 80, 108, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 127, 129, 130, 140, 143, 164, 165, 167

universalism, 69, 70, 75–8, 83, 119, 132, 175, 197n1, 199n40

USSR, 62, 63, 79, 139 Soviet Union, 57, 70, 74, 139

utopia, 3, 28, 32, 35, 48, 54, 58, 60, 66, 69, 70, 72, 108, 113, 114, 132, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 143, 145, 146, 150, 153, 177, 179, 181, 182

vanguard functions, 163

Venezuela, 169

wages, 2, 71, 87, 90, 91, 93, 94, 97, 98, 101, 111, 120, 122, 125, 156, 166, 167

welfare, 14, 38, 57, 59, 61, 62, 63, 64, 71, 73, 90, 100, 101, 103, 105, 118, 119, 122, 124

Wilde, Oscar, 182

withdrawal, 11, 47, 48, 69, 131, 182

exit, 47, 48, 181

escape, 3, 9, 11, 38, 69, 107, 114, 139, 165, 178

140, 141, 142, 143, 147, 150, 151, 152, 157, 163, 165, 166, 170, 173, 174, 176, 177, 178, 181

wage labour, 74, 85, 86, 87, 89, 90, 92, 103, 104, 105, 120, 136, 141, 180

job, 2, 38, 41, 47, 48, 63, 64, 79, 85, 86, 88, 89, 90, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103, 104, 105, 110, 111, 113, 114–23, 124, 125, 126, 129, 147, 148, 161, 166, 167, 171

worker-controlled factories, 38, 39

workfare, 59, 100, 104

World Trade Organisation, 6

World War II, 46, 54, 56, 57, 115, 156

Zapatistas, 11, 22, 26, 35

zero-hours contracts, 93

Žižek, Slavoj, 140

Zuccotti Park, 31, 32

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