The first illustration from the cover, depicting a smug, birdlike figure in a top hat and the indications of a suit, lording over a mass of smaller bird figures smothered by his great black cloak.

Tract I

1, What is communism?; Science fiction?

2, Communism or capitalism?; Sliced bread; The capitalist mode of production; Private property; Profit; Wage labor and industrialization; The state and capitalism; Recycling; Savages; Marx and Engels.

3, The end of property; What is property?; The agrarian question; From scarcity to abundance; The transformation of products.

4, Beyond work; Work and torture; Science and automation; Class society and robotization; Remuneration; Laziness; The allocation of tasks; Onerous jobs; The end of separations; Production and consumption; Production and education.