99/100 THE REVOLUTION OF EVERYDAY LIFE BY RAOUL VANEIGEM, TRANSLATED BY DONALD NICHOLSON-SMITH WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR OAKLAND, CA: PM PRESS. 304 PAGES. $20.
The other day at the Occupy Wall Street demonstration in Zuccotti Park, I picked up a tract produced by the group prole.info that makes a punchy, graphically illustrated case for working-class revolution: "At work, " write the anonymous authors, "we are under the control of our bosses . . . but an invisible hand imposes a work-like discipline and pointlessness on the rest of our lives as well. Life seems like a kind of show we watch from the outside, but have no control over. " This analysis owes much to the group of …
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