a starting point a wide and complex definition of self-management: a critica! movement linked to collective action, and at one time, a new method of organising thc relations of power and knowledge and a project for the transformation of society on ali levels. The study of the texts is, therefore, linked to an analysis of the operational functions of self-management in various fields of knowledge: history, theory, politica! economy, etc .... In each of these sectors, the main determinants of the self-management theme are examined with a view to arriving at a better understanding of the context in which it becomes relevant and its effects cn socia! practice and the manner in which it is presented: the formation of a symbolic històrical image, which is the opposite of the habitual history of the labour movement; new models and concepts for the understanding of self-management phenomena; the definition of a politica! strategy which does not allow any recuperation by the State; the creation of economie and socia! structures which allow one to live and work differently; the realisation of educational processes based on creativity of individuals and groups; the search for autonomous spaces where it is possible to live in diversity and equality. Also included in this bibliographical presentation are severa! works which criticise self-management but which stimulate its supporters to exercise themselves on the critique of criticism. Although reading about it is not enough, these books bave the merit of not only helping us to understand better what generalised self-management is and could be, along with its difficulties and its uncertainties, but also in bringing about an opening up of its possibili ties. Now all that's needed is ... to pass from self-management in theory to self-management in practice, but that is certainly not the least of the difficulties involved! COLOMBO - Autogestion, as a formula now becoming widespread, is a mixture of different concepts, dissimilar and even opposed, depending on the theoric-politic context considered. In industrially advanced countries, autogestion seems to be an alternative to the break-up of class society's traditional, hierarchical and authoritarian values. But, simultaneously with certain generalized talk about autogestion, there exists a feeble deve!opment of the mass revolutionary movement which must naturally support the project. The gulf between autogestionary « fashion » and massive revolutionary support defines the ideological space in which coexist different autogestionary models, speading between the poles defined as cogestion and generalized autogestion. This representational space contains the socia!, politica! and economie relationships structurally determined by the State. The different politica! theories admitting autogestion eitlier accept without regrets the State's authoritarian centralism, or they postulate its graduai disappearance (déperissement de l'Etat). The Anarchist revolutionary project contains another representation of the socia! space, and it is fundamentally anti-Statal. Therefore, there exist a rupture and the problem is the revolution and the destruction of the State. In the first case, where one does not postulate the State's destruction (the content of this concept, « State destruction », is precised in the 232
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