Sommaersi BERTOLO - Over the last decade a certain « demand for self-management » has manifested itself, both in theory as well as in socia! practice, which has subversive implications, including the negation of power. This cultura! phenomenon has been swamped with attempts to incorporate and mystify it, with the purpose of deviating people away from its origina! libertarian and egalitarian values. Self-management is a method: the organisational and functional method of individua! and collective self-determination. Whenever all its presuppositions and implications, in breadth and depth anct also as regards ends and means, are accepted, this method !eads one to p'icture a system of « generalised self-management » which 1s more or less synonymous with libertarian socialism. It is a libertarian socialism, however, which does not descend from anarchist ideology but arises, significantly, from the socia! needs and sc_ientific advances of the present day. Running through the issues around generalised self-management (division/integration of labour, delegation/direct democracy, the positive aspects of the small scale, equality and diversity, harmony and conflict) we are {aced with the same problems as anarchism has always had and an analogous way of putting forward possible solutions. Thus even the approach to strategy, if it is accepted that self-management is not the reform of that which already exists but rather the radical and unreconcilable transformation of it, leads to the consideration of the problems connected to the egalitarian and libertarian revolution and of its methods. One can imagine, in connection with this, a strategy of self-management which, in bringing together self-management of struggles and self-management of everyday life with a continua! breaking down of the structures/infrastructures/superstructures of power, could lead to the growth of a counter-society which would bring about the crumbling of the coherence and cohesion of the hierarchical system. CORPET - There is a continua! growth in the number of publications concerned with self-management. It is a phenomenon which correlates with an increasingly wide circulation of the ideas and practices Qf self-management throughout the world. This article examines the main works dedicated to this theme which bave appeared in France and in French over the last ten years. This subjective presentation takes as 231
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