In this book Shah-Shuja identifies various 'zones of proletarian development' where people learn from each other, solve social problems, engage in collective meaning-making and develop consciousness.

Crucially, she demonstrates how capitalism is metamorphosing at a number of fronts simultaneously. She shows how new methods of exploitation and accumulation are being challenged by an emerging universal class unencumbered by some of the limitations of previous struggles. The reactionary nature of liberalism, social democracy, fascism and bolshevism are examined whilst the once-radical ideologies of left communism, council communism, anarchism, autonomist marxism, libertarian socialism and situationism are subjected to critical interrogation.

Imaginatively presented, with a collection of illustrations, Zones of Proletarian Development captures the increasing complexities of the class struggle in the twenty-first century and offers concrete suggestions for organising against capitalism.

Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter one - Epistemology, Methodology and Method
Chapter two- Vygotskian May Days
Chapter three- Iranian football riots as Bakhtinian carnivalesque
Chapter four- Activity Theory and Social Movements: Two case studies
Chapter five- Towards a new kind of revolutionary organising
Appendix 1- Mindful Thuggery and the Spectacularisation of Drama
Appendix 2- The Glorious Proletarian Siege of Oxford Street
References