Response to the Americans on gender - Theorie Communiste
Theorie Communiste reply to some questions on their conception of the gender-capital relation.
I will answer these four questions in the same order they were asked, but sometimes the answer to the second one is required to understand the first.
1. Why do all class societies depend on the increase in population as principal productive force?
Interview with Roland Simon
An interview with Roland Simon of Théorie communiste. Appeared in riff-raff no. 8.
This interview took place in Poznan, Poland on August 18, 2005 and was made in French with the help by English interpretors.
RR: Roland, you are involved in the group Théorie Communiste in France which has existed since the early 1970s. Could you tell us in short what were the main reasons for creating the group at that time, and how it has, in general, developed over the years?
Communization in the present tense
In the course of revolutionary struggle, the abolition of the state, of exchange, of the division of labor, of all forms of property, the extension of the situation where everything is freely available as the unification of human activity – in a word, the abolition of classes – are ‘measures’ that abolish capital, imposed by the very necessities of struggle against the capitalist class.
Sic 1.1 - Further remarks
Further remarks and discussion on The Present Moment from Sic 1
Table of Contents
1. Additional remarks on the end of activism
2. “The police is also, opposite to us, our own existence as a class as limit”
3. General remark by Blaumachen on the text
4. Formal subsumption; real subsumption
5. The conjuncture
6. Critique of the conception of theory in the text
The present moment – Further remarks and discussion
Communization and its discontents: Contestation, critique, and contemporary struggles
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.
Les émeutes en Grèce, a review
a short review in French of Les émeutes en Grèce, a book mainly by Théo Cosme (Théorie Communiste) about the Greece riots of 2008.
An English translation of Les émeutes en Grèce can be found here.
Théo Cosme, « Les émeutes en Grèce », Senonevero, Marseille, 2009, 136 p.
Introduction to ‘A reply to Aufheben’ - A former member of Aufheben
A reply from a former member of Aufheben to Theorie Communiste. Previous entries in this debate can be found in Riff-Raff No. 8.
An introduction to an introduction
It has been suggested that the following text – a draft for an introduction to TC’s response to what had appeared about them in Aufheben no 12 – requires some explanation.
Crisis theory/theories: a discussion - Bruno Astarian
Bruno Astarian dissects Theorie Communiste's text 'Crisis Theory/Theories'.
In his text, RS tries to reconcile two opposing explanations of crises. In my opinion, he fails. He doesn’t demonstrate the need for such a reconciliation (To me, Mattick’s theory remains sufficient – though I admit that I didn’t read it for quite a time).
The suspended step of communisation: communisation vs socialisation - Theorie Communiste
2009 text by Theorie Communiste outlining what they think the process of communisation would look like.
“The ultimate point of the reciprocal implication between the classes is that in which the proletariat seizes the means of production. It seizes them, but cannot appropriate them. An appropriation carried out by the proletariat is a contradiction in terms, because it could only be achieved through its own abolition.”
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