ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the theory and concepts which underlie and inform the work as a whole. It introduces the core ideas according to their usage within a radical tendency which is most usefully described as ‘theoretical communism.’ Communism implies the elimination of work in favour of a “new type of free activity.” The difference between revolutionary transition and the establishment of a new political regime or a new kind of State can also be understood in terms of the non-institutionalisation of revolutionary struggle. Since the revolution would cease to be a revolution were it to institutionalise its relationship with its enemies, or to seek to do so, the dictatorship of the proletariat cannot but be anti-Statist. Proletarian autonomy has been described as something separate from, and antagonistic to, the logic of capital. Proletarian autonomy is defined negatively as subversion, as the negation of capital’s tendency to incorporate workers’ struggle.
