Good overview of a peculiar development in the Western left. The book is at its strongest when focusing on the captured left, that which cannot look further than opposing the (as the author sees it, artificial) onset of austerity. There is some jumbling of rhetorical opponents, as the book covers the purveyors of the apparatus itself, social democratic trade unionists, fascists and promoters of theories like communization and Empire. This is made somewhat easier to follow by the unusual organization style (following Tiqqun, according to an interview with the author).