Impolitic and unrepresentable: this is how this essay defines the society of the present with an eye on several complementary processes that have taken place during the last decades. These processes include: the expulsion of masses of workers from production and their replacement by robots; the domination of the global financial powers over the will of the populations; social disaggregation as a consequence of the individualistic imperative; the oligarchic recomposition of social stratification, and the deepening of the ecological crisis. A framework that is unsupportive and closed to the collective imagination that has become the systemic crisis of a hyperproductive capitalism but without sufficient employment, and therefore with a shortage of demand, in which the author places the emergence of populist forms of aggregation of mass dissatisfaction. .
Under these conditions, the priority tasks are to recover the strong sense of politics and invent new institutions that allow the democratic representation of aspirations to a dignified life.
In the face of systematically organized oblivion, the contribution of this volume consists of recovering the efforts that have been made in the field of what was previously understood as the left to advance on a more egalitarian horizon, as well as formulating, in dialogue with some emancipatory tendencies of the present, a minimum program that starts from the need to recover the centrality of the conflict around work and the distribution of social production, and to face the great ecological risks.

Reviews and Critiques:

- «An important book in the panorama of legal literature». (Informative Bulletin of Judges for Democracy)

- «Is the empire of capital and the misery of the people an immutable destiny? This is the question that Mario Barcellona asks himself in this volume, that he has the merit of proposing a possible left to come and a solidary democracy to be invented». (Le Monde diplomatique)