Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction The Common: A Political Principle
- 1 Archaeology of the Common
- Part I The Emergence of the Common
- 2 The Communist Burden; or Communism Against the Common
- 3 The Great Appropriation and the Return of the “Commons”
- 4 Critique of the Political Economy of the Commons
- 5 Common, Rent, and Capital
- Part II Law and Institution of the Common
- 6 The Law of Property and the Unappropriable
- 7 Law of the Common and “Common Law”
- 8 The “Customary Law of Poverty”
- 9 The Workers’ Common: Between Custom and Institution
- 10 Instituent Praxis
- Part III Nine Political Propositions
- Political Proposition 1 We Must Construct a Politics of the Common
- Political Proposition 2 Use Rights Must Challenge Property
- Political Proposition 3 The Common is the Principle of Labor’s Emancipation
- Political Proposition 4 We Must Institute Common Work
- Political Proposition 5 Economic Associationism is the Pathway to the Society of the Common
- Political Proposition 6 The Common Must Be the Basis of Social Democracy
- Political Proposition 7 Public Services Must Become Institutions of the Common
- Political Proposition 8 The Commons Must be Global
- Political Proposition 9 We Must Institute a Federation of Commons
- Post-Script on Revolution in the Twenty-First Century
- Notes