“How can we get free? How can we free ourselves, our communities, our environments, our society? Our present is infused with incredible possibilities for realizing a free association of social individuals, sustainably regulating our relations within nature. Yet the material possibilities for the realization of this freedom remain trapped within a present that summons all available weapons of repression to contain and suppress it

“The question of freedom is central to all revolutionary movements. It is at the root of everyday struggles to resist and overcome oppression. Often, the realities we face constrain how we understand this question, so we ask it in pieces. How do we provide for each other? How do we protect, nurture, care, love, create? These questions of survival and perseverance ask how we liberate ourselves from the hardships of enclosure, exploitation, and dependency that are imposed on our minds, bodies, communities, and environments.”

By laying bare the mechanisms of capitalism, imperialism, settler colonialism, climate catastrophe, heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, exploitation and dispossesion, and a range of other oppressive structures and countering them with a historical account of revolutionary movements from around the world, Organizing for Autonomy offers a brazen and determined articulation of a world that centers community, love, and justice.

With an unparalleled breadth and by synthesizing innumerable sources of revolutionary thought and history, CounterPower presents the result of years of inquiry, struggle, and resistance. Bold, fearless, and radically original, Organizing for Autonomy imagines a decolonized, communist, alternative world order that is free from oppressive structures, state violence, and racial capitalism and helps us to get there. 

INTRODUCTION

The Specter That Haunts Us
Guerrilla Tektology
From Counterpower to Cpommunism
Outline of the Book

CHAPTER 1: THE WEAPON OF THEORY

1.1: Power to the People

1.2: Partisan Social Science

1.3: Social Investigation
Decoding the Hidden Transcript

1.4: A World of Sciences
Empire as a World-Producing Force
Dominant Centers, Dominated Peripheries
The Ecological Rift
Resurgent Fascism

CHAPTER 2: IMPERIALISM AND REVOLUTION

2.1: The Imperialist World-System
Demystifying Reality and Illuminating Paths to Freedom
Against Reductionism
Historical-Geographical Materialism
An Itinerary for Radical Social Science

2.2: Revolutionary Situations
The Danger of Assimilation

CHAPTER 3: ENVISIONING THE COMMONS

3.1: Abolition
The Abolition of Class Society

3.2: Communism at Point Zero
Free Love and Free Partnerships
A Psychedelic Transformation of Everyday Life
Polyculturalism and Intercommunalism

3.3: Commons
Communal Habitations
Education for Autonomy

3.4: Communal Administration and Coordination
Councils
Communes
Stewardship of the Commons and Collective Enterprises
Federated Councils of Workers and Consumers
Communal Participatory Planning
Liberating Collective LAbor
Social Provisioning, Remunerative Justice, and Factors of Consumption
Negate the State
A Communal Participatory Polity
Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice
Communal Defense and Security

3.5: The World Commune

CHAPTER 4: BUILDING THE COMMUNE

4.1: Organized Autonomy
Organs of Counterpower
Defending the Area of Autonomy
Create Two, Three, Many Parties of Autonomy!
From United Front to System of Counterpower

4.2: Protracted Revolutionary Struggle
A Path to Liberation
Phase 1: Laying the Groundwork
Phase 2: The Emergence of Territorial Counterpower
Phase 3: Insurrectionary Rupture
Phase 4: Direct Transition to Communism
A Continuous Revolution 

CONCLUSION
Summation
The Question of Program

References
Index