Eclipse And Re Emergence Of The Communist Movement

Author : Gilles Dauvé
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1629630551
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement written by Gilles Dauvé and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 printed as books in both the United States and the UK with few changes. This third English edition is updated to take into account the contemporary political situation; half of the present volume is new material. The book argues that doing away with wage-labor, class, the State, and private property is necessary, possible, and can only be achieved by a historical break, one that would certainly differ from October 1917… yet it would not be a peaceful, gradual, piecemeal evolution either. Like their historical predecessors—Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Anton Pannekoek, Amadeo Bordiga, Durruti, and Debord—the authors maintain a belief in revolution.

Author : Gilles Dauvé
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eclipse and Re-emeregence of the Communist Movement written by Gilles Dauvé and published by . This book was released on 1997* with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gilles Dauvé
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1629633038
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Crisis to Communisation written by Gilles Dauvé and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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. That is what this book is about. Communisation is not the be-all and end-all that solves everything and proves wrong all past critical theory. The concept was born out of a specific period, and we can fully understand it by going back to how people personally and collectively experienced the crises of the 1960s and ’70s. The notion is now developing in the maelstrom of a new crisis, deeper than the Depression of the 1930s, among other reasons because of its ecological dimension, a crisis that has the scope and magnitude of a crisis of civilisation. This is not a book that glorifies existing struggles as if their present accumulation were enough to result in revolution. Radical theory is meaningful if it addresses the question: How can proletarian resistance to exploitation and dispossession achieve more than aggravate the crisis? How can it reshape the world?

Author : John P. Gerber
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792302742
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anton Pannekoek and the Socialism of Workers' Self Emancipation, 1873-1960 written by John P. Gerber and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1989 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fredy Perlman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995660977
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Machine and Its Discontents written by Fredy Perlman and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacques Rancière
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441114025
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Althusser's Lesson written by Jacques Rancière and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacques Rancière's first major work, Althusser's Lesson appeared in 1974, just as the energies of May 68 were losing ground to the calls for a return to order. Rancière's analysis of Althusserian Marxism unfolds against this background: what is the relationship between the return to order and the enthusiasm which greeted the publication of Althusser's Reply to John Lewis in 1973? How to explain the rehabilitation of a philosophy that had been declared 'dead and buried on the barricades of May 68'? What had changed? The answer to this question takes the form of a genealogy of Althusserianism that is, simultaneously, an account of the emergence of militant student movements in the '60s, of the arrival of Maoism in France, and of how May 68 rearranged all the pieces anew. Encompassing the book's distinctive combination of theoretical analysis and historical description is a question that has guided Rancière's thought ever since: how do theories of subversion become the rationale for order?

Author : Philippe Bourrinet
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900432593X
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900–68) written by Philippe Bourrinet and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dutch-German Communist Left separated from the Comintern (1921) on questions like electoralism, trade-unionism, united fronts, the one-party state and anti-proletarian violence. The present volume provides the most substantial history to date of this tendency in the twentieth-century Communist movement.

Author : Gilles Dauvé
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781629639451
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your Place Or Mine: A 21st Century Essay on (Same) Sex written by Gilles Dauvé and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Anton Pannekoek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780359046485
Total Pages : 180 pages
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Download or read book Workers' Councils written by Anton Pannekoek and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anton Pannekoek discusses the viability of workers' councils as an effective means of administrating a socialist society, as contrasted to the centralized doctrines of state communism or state capitalism. Conceived as an alternative way to establish and sustain socialism, the workers councils have so far never been successfully established at a national scale. Part of the problem was disagreements among revolutionaries about their size and responsibilities; while Lenin supported the notion during the revolutionary period, the councils were phased out in favor of a centralized state, rather than diffused through the strata of society. Pannekoek draws on history for his ideas, noting the deficiencies of previous revolutions and the major objectives a future revolution should hold. The various tasks a state of worker's councils must accomplish, and the enemies that must be overcome - notably fascists, bourgeois elements and big business - are listed.

Author : Benjamin Noys
Publisher : Minor Compositions
ISBN 13 : 9781570272318
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Communization and Its Discontents written by Benjamin Noys and published by Minor Compositions. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Can we find alternatives to the failed radical projects of the twentieth century? What are the possible forms of struggle today? How do we fight back against the misery of our crisis-ridden present? 'Communization' is the spectre of the immediate struggle to abolish capitalism and the state, which haunts Europe, Northern California and wherever the real abstractions of value that shape our lives are contested. Evolving on the terrain of capitalism new practices of the 'human strike', autonomous communes, occupation and insurrection have attacked the alienations of our times. These signs of resistance are scattered and have yet to coalesce, and their future is deliberately precarious and insecure. Bringing together voices from inside and outside of these currents Communization and Its Discontents treats communization as a problem to be explored rather than a solution. Taking in the new theorizations of communization proposed by Tiqqun and The Invisible Committee, Théorie Communiste, post-autonomists, and others, it offers critical reflections on the possibilities and the limits of these contemporary forms, strategies, and tactics of struggle"--Publisher's description.