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Architecture Against Empire

On class, power, sovereignty, and building institutions that don't rot

  1. How to read this book

    Reading paths by reader type and by question
  2. A note before the argument

    A structured argument, not a blueprint
  3. Democracy is failing

    Why another framework, and why now
  4. Everything comes back

    The principle that holds the framework together
  5. “There are two classes”

    You are probably in the one that is getting screwed
  6. Consent, coercion, and the tower of babel

    How they keep power, and how we break it
  7. Speak the language of your adversaries

    The form of resistance must match the form of oppression
  8. Start where you are

    Organize in person, in small groups, beginning with one concrete problem
  9. Every revolution fails the same way

    Here is how to stop it
  10. The transition itself

    The transition is where every revolution dies. This is the architecture that prevents it.
  11. Too important to be private

    If something is too important to fail, it is too important to be private
  12. The budget that does not vote

    The ecological constitution as the ground beneath the political constitution
  13. The economic architecture

    How compensation, ownership, and the material floor actually work
  14. What the recursive hour earns

    Innovation as production: an attribution architecture between brain-drain and IP-capture
  15. The calculation problem and what answers it

    Mises, Hayek, and the cybernetic-socialist response that finally takes the calculation problem seriously
  16. The currency question

    How exchange survives the abolition of capital
  17. Chile did not fail

    It was murdered
  18. The fourth domain

    The most technical chapter in this book and one of the most critical. Marx's neutral tool, applied.
  19. Where this framework's own principle cuts against it

    The places this book is most likely to be wrong
  20. Learning from the dead

    Every prior socialist project, read against the framework
  21. Not utopia

    What success actually looks like
  22. Start tomorrow: a framework for action

    Everything before this was theory. This is what you do.
  23. For those who come after us

    We do this for you.
  24. Appendix A: Marxist lineage

    What the framework owes the tradition, and what it translates.
  25. Glossary

    Terms and concepts as used in this framework