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Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement
In the years following 1968, a number of people involved in the most radical aspects of the French general strike felt the need to reflect on their experiences and to relate them to past revolutionary endeavors. This meant studying previous attempts and theories, namely those of the post-1917 German-Dutch and Italian Communist Left. The original essays included here were first written between 1969 and 1972 and circulated amongst left communist and worker circles. But France was not the only country where radicals sought to contextualize their political environment and analyze their own radical pasts. Over the years these three essays have been published separately in various languages and pr...
From Crisis to Communisation
“Communisation” means something quite straightforward: a revolution that starts to change social relations immediately. It would extend over years, decades probably, but from Day One it would begin to do away with wage-labour, profit, productivity, private property, classes, States, masculine domination, and more. There would be no “transition period” in the Marxist sense, no period when the “associated producers” continue furthering economic growth to create the industrial foundations of a new world. Communisation means a creative insurrection that would bring about communism, not its preconditions. Thus stated, it sounds simple enough. The questions are what, how, and by whom. ...
Your Place Or Mine: A 21st Century Essay on (Same) Sex
In a fascinating and radical critique of identity and class, Your Place or Mine? examines the modern invention of homosexuality as a social construct that emerged in the 19th century. Examining "fairies" in Victorian England, transmen in early 20th century Manhattan, sexual politics in Soviet Russia as well as Stonewall's attempt to combine gay self-defence with revolutionary critique. Dauvé turns his keen eye on contemporary political correctness in the United States, and the rise of reactionary discourse. The utopian vision of Your Place or Mine? is vital to a just society: the invention of a world where one can be human without having to be classified by sexual practices or gender expressions. Where one need not find shelter in definition or assimilation. A refreshing reminder that we are not all the same, nor do we need to be.
End Notes 1
Endnotes is a journal/book series published by a discussion group based in Germany, the UK and the US. It is primarily oriented towards conceptualising the conditions of possibility of a communist overcoming of the capitalist mode of production--and of the multiple structures of domination which pattern societies characterised by that mode of production--starting from present conditions. As such it has been concerned with debates in communist theory, and particularly the problematic of "communisation"; the question of gender and its abolition; the analysis of contemporary struggles, movements and political economy; the dynamics of surplus population and its effects on capital and class; capitalist formations of "race"; value-form theory and systematic dialectics; the revolutionary failures and impasses of the 20th Century. Endnotes 1 (Preliminary Materials for a Balance Sheet of the 20th Century) includes presentation of a debate between Troploin (Gilles Dauve, Karl Nesic) and Theorie Communiste on communisation, the history of capitalism and class struggle."
Everything Must Go!
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Crítica da Internacional Situacionista
Jean Barrot, pseudônimo de Gilles Dauvé, apresenta uma forte crítica à chamada “Internacional Situacionista”, que tem como principais representantes Guy Debord e Raoul Vaneigem. Barrot analisa as deficiências do situacionismo, mostrando seus limites e vínculos com a sociedade burguesa. As noções de “espetáculo” e “subjetividade radical” são questionadas, bem como os laços da Internacional Situacionista com o “conselhismo” e o grupo Socialismo ou Barbárie. Em síntese, Barrot coloca que a Internacional Situacionista não ultrapassa os limites da sociedade capitalista. Em anexo publicamos um breve texto posterior assinado por Dauvé, no qual ele retoma e complementa a crítica do situacionismo.
Not Bored! Anthology 1983-2010
Massive anthology of essays and illustrations published in NOT BORED! between 1983 and 2010.
Death to Bourgeois Society
Perhaps no period has so marked, so deformed, or so defined the anarchist movement as the three years in France from 1892 to 1894, the years known as the Age of Attentats, the years dominated by the Propagandists of the Deed. Death to Bourgeois Society tells the story of four young anarchists who were guillotined in France in the 1890s. Their courage was motivated by noble ideals whose realization they saw their bombs and assassinations as hastening. In a time of cynicism and political decay for many, they represented a purity lacking in society, and their actions when they were captured, their forthrightness, their defiance up to the guillotine only added to their luster. The texts collecte...
