John Asimakopoulos is Full Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York. His publications include Revolt! (Transformative Studies Institute, 2011), The Accumulation of Freedom (AK Press, 2012, with Eric Shannon and Anthony J. Nocella), Social Structures of Direct Democracy (Haymarket, 2015), and Against Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Temple University Press, 2018).

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• ForewordGreg PalastAcknowledgementsIllustrationsIntroduction: Busting out of Plato 's Cave1 The Symbolic Institution of Society1Symbolic Interactionism2Interaction Exchange and Collective Norms3Critical Theory and Post-Structuralism/Postmodernism3.1Cornelius Castoriadis3.2Michel Foucault3.3Guy Debord3.4Jean Baudrillard4Beyond Post-Structuralism/Postmodernism2The Spectacle1Audience Segmentation1.1Sociocultural and Spatial Segmentation1.2Educational Segmentation1.3Economic Segmentation1.4Political Segmentation2Total Propaganda3Symbolic Institutions3.1Educational Institutions3.2Economic Institutions3.3Political Institutions3.4Legal Institutions3.5Protective Institutions3 It 's All Spectacular1Spectacular History2Postmodern Spectacles2.1Doubleplusgood: Spectacular Capitalism2.2Plusgood: Spectacular Socialism/Communism3Spectacular Class4The Quantum Mechanics of Value and Capital4.1The Relativity of Value4.2There Is No Spoon: Capital(ism)4 The Monetization of Everything1Life, Flesh, and Death2Food, Water, and the Environment3Cities, Nations, and Culture4Time and Space5The Global Spectacle5.1Finance5.2Trade5.3Segmented Labor5 The Structure of Postmodern Caste1Social Order1.1Privileges and Disabilities Based on Ascription1.2Who Pays the Piper?1.3Extreme Structural Inequality2Caste Groups2.1Ruling Caste2.2Nobles2.3Privileged Labor2.4Required Labor2.5Precarious Labor2.6Institutional Slaves3Legitimizing Twenty-First-Century Serfdom3.1Mr. Baptist Has Been Too Harsh on the SlaversConclusion: Bakunin 's ConundrumBibliographyIndex