Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Dionysus -- Part I -- Chapter 1. Communism as Critique -- Dinosaurs -- Communism -- Labor -- Subject -- Postmodern -- Marxisms -- Passages -- Chapter 2. Keynes and the Capitalist Theory of the State -- 1929 as a Fundamental Moment for a Periodization of the Modern State -- Keynes and the Period 1917 to 1929: Understanding the Impact of the October Revolution on the Structure of Capitalism -- Keynes's Shift from Politics to Science: 1929 and the Working Class within Capital -- Capitalist Reconstruction and the Social State -- Chapter 3. Labor in the Constitution -- I. Introduction to the Problematic -- II. Process of the Constitutionalization of Labor -- III. Model of the Constitutionalization of Labor -- IV. Critique of the Model of the Bourgeois Theory of Authority -- Part II -- Chapter 4. Communist State Theory -- The Revisionist Tradition and Its Conception of the State -- Situating the Problem: Marxian Approaches -- The Contemporary State of Theory: Neo-Gramscian Variations -- Reproposition of the Problem: From Distribution to Production -- Developments of the Structural Analysis of the State: Mechanisms of Organization -- Developments of the Structural Analysis of the State: The State in the Theory of Crisis -- A Parenthesis: The Quibblings, Allusions, and Self-criticisms of Bourgeois Theory -- Repropositions of the Problem: State, Class Struggle, and Communist Transition -- Chapter 5. The State and Public Spending -- The Problematic as a Whole: Conditions of Interpretation and Real Conditions -- First Analytical Approach: Evaluative Elements of the Tendency toward the Social Unification of Productive Labor -- Second Analytical Approach: On Social Accumulation, State Management, and the Contradictions of the Capitalist Foundation of Legitimacy -- The Crisis of Public Spending in Italy.

The New Proletarian Subject in the Period of Crisis and Restructuring -- Further Considerations on the Accumulation and Legitimation Functions of Public Spending -- The Ideological Collapse of the Institutional Workers' Movement: Reformism and Repression -- Old Tactic for a New Strategy -- Part III -- Chapter 6. Postmodern Law and the Withering of Civil Society -- Rawls and the Revolution -- Postmodern Law and the Ghost of Labor in the Constitution -- The Genius of the System: Reflection and Equilibrium -- Weak Subjects and the Politics of Avoidance -- The Strong State of Neoliberalism: Crisis and Revolution in the 1980s -- Common Good and the Subject of Community -- The Autonomy of the State: Moral Welfare -- The Real Subsumption of Society in the State -- Chapter 7. Potentialities of a Constituent Power -- The Crisis of Real Socialism: A Space of Freedom -- Paradoxes of the Postmodern State -- The Social Bases of the Postmodern State and the Existing Prerequisites of Communism -- A Reflection on the Alternatives within Modernity -- Ontology and Constitution -- The Practical Critique of Violence -- The Normative Development and Consolidation of the Postmodern State -- The Illusions of Juridical Reformism -- Genealogy of the Constituent Subject -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.