Frontier Socialism: Self-Organisation and Anti-Capitalism

​Introduction
Chapter I. "Revolution is not what is supposed to be by revolutionaries". Gustav Landauer (1870-1919)1. Bio-bibliographical account2. Cooperative self-organization3. The State as a social relation4. Critique of Marxism5. Analysis of Capitalism6. RevolutionBibliography
Chapter II. Class struggle and women liberation. Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952)1. Bio-bibliographical account2. Marxism, Class Initiative and Gender Autonomy3. A Difficult transition to Socialism, between capitalistic legacies and bureaucratization4. Class self-determination: the role of the party and of the trade union5. A difficult balance between workers' democracy and leading role of the partyBibliography
Interlude. Resistance or Revolution? The Spanish Civil War
Chapter III. Self-government and Communism. Paul Mattick (1904-1981)1. Bio-bibliographical account2. Marx and his epigones3. Mixed economy and State capitalism4. Against Bolshevism and for a workers' democracyBibliography
Chapter IV. Workers struggles in the Neocapitalistic Age. Raniero Panzieri (1921-1964)1. Bio-bibliographical account2. Marx and Marxism3. Monopoly Capitalism: Factory and Society4. Workers' controlBibliography
Interlude. Between Social Movement and Revolutionary Party: Lotta continua
Chapter V. A revolutionary reformism: Rudolf Meidner (1914-2005)1. Bio-bibliographical account2. Meidner and Marxism3. Beyond Private Property4. The confrontation on the wage earners funds and their neutralizationBibliography
Chapter VI. A Communist Theory of Politics: Nicos Poulantzas (1936-1979)1. Bio-bibliographical account2. Poulantzas' understanding of Marxism3. Economic and political crisis in the age of monopoly capitalism4. Conquest of the State and direct democracyBibliography
Chapter VII. Into the crisis1. A homogeneous political orientation?2. The Chilean Laboratory3. The legacy of 684. The defeat of Keynes, namely world's hayekization Bibliography
Conclusions. Attempts1. In the rubble: Alain Bihr's road to renewal2. The movements' movement3. A "new historical project"4. Between Class and Gender5. A new Hope?Bibliography
Index of Names