"Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination" by David Graeber

In this collection of essays David Graeber explores a wide-ranging set of topics including political strategy, global trade, debt, imagination, violence, aesthetics, alienation, and creativity. Written in the wake of the anti-globalization movement and the rise of the war on terror, these essays survey the political landscape for signs of hope in unexpected places.

Contents
Introduction
The Shock of Victory
I: The Anti-Nuclear Movement
II: The Global justice movement
Hope in Common
Revolution in Reverse
Part I: “be realistic…”
Part II: on violence and imaginative displacement
IIa: excursus on transcendent versus immanent imagination
Part III: on alienation
Part IV: On Revolution
IVa: Revolution in Reverse
Conclusion
Army of Altruists
PROPOSITION I: Neither egoism nor altruism are natural urges; they are in fact arise in relation to one another and neither would be conceivable without the market
PROPOSITION II: The political right has always tried to enhance this division, and thus claim to be champions of egoism and altruism simultaneously. The left has tried to efface it
PROPOSITION III: The real problem of the American left is that while it does try in certain ways to efface the division between egoism and altruism, value and values, it largely does so for its own children. This has allowed the right to paradoxically represent itself as the champions of the working class.
The Sadness of Post-workerism
What happened
About the concept of immaterial labor
The art world as a form of politics
On Prophecy and Social Theory
On the fullness of time
A final note
Against Kamikaze Capitalism
Le Havre
The productivist bargain and the paradox of the twentieth century
So, what was neoliberalism?
Kamikaze capitalism
Minor Compositions