Ken Knabb

(chap. 4) Rebirth - Ken Knabb (1997)

Chapter 4: Rebirth

Utopians fail to envision postrevolutionary diversity
Decentralization and coordination
Safeguards against abuses
Consensus, majority rule and unavoidable hierarchies
Eliminating the roots of war and crime

(chap. 3) Climaxes - Ken Knabb (1997)

Chapter 3: Climaxes

Causes of social breakthroughs
Postwar upheavals
Effervescence of radical situations
Popular self-organization
The situationists in May 1968

(chap. 2) Foreplay - Ken Knabb (1997)

Chapter 2: Foreplay

Personal breakthroughs
Critical interventions
Theory versus ideology
Avoiding false choices and elucidating real ones
The insurrectionary style
Radical film

(chap. 1) Some Facts of Life - Ken Knabb (1997)

Chapter 1: Some Facts of Life

 

The Joy of Revolution - Ken Knabb (1997)

“The Joy of Revolution” is a series of observations on the problems and possibilities of a global antihierarchical revolution. Beginning with a brief overview of the failure of Bolshevism and the inadequacy of reformism, it examines the pros and cons of a wide range of radical tactics, then concludes with some speculations on what a liberated society might be like.

We Don't Want Full Employment, We Want Full Lives! - Ken Knabb (1998)


If a household gets a washing machine, you never hear the family members who used to do the laundry by hand complain that this “puts them out of work.” But strangely enough, if a similar development occurs on a broader social scale it is seen as a serious problem — “unemployment” — which can only be solved by inventing more jobs for people to do.