Massimo de Angelis, Chapter 1 (“The beginning of history”), Chapter 16 (“The ‘outside’”), Chapter 17 (“Commons”) in The Beginning of History: Value Struggles and Global Capital. Pluto Press, 2007.

Other Dimensions! The problematic of the beginning of history is all about the beginning of other dimensions of living and co-production of livelihoods. A beginning that does not reside in texts amd learned words, but arises out of diverse struggles emerging from within the social body, and is thrown in the face of those who have proclaimed with crass certainty and ideological conviction that the era of the end of history has arrived. (...)