Jean Barrot
French communist, fusing and critiquing the various strands of left communism and former co-editor of La Banquise.
Capital and state - Gilles Dauvé
An extract of "The communist movement", 1972, on communism, capital and their relation to the capitalist state.
A section from Le mouvement communiste, Editions Champ Libre, 1972, Troisième partie : Révolution et contre-révolution., pp 166-176.
Закат и возрождение коммунистического движения - Жан Барро и Франсуа Мартен
КАПИТАЛИЗМ И КОММУНИЗМ
Whither the world - Gilles Dauvé & Karl Nesic
Gilles Dauvé & Karl Nesic of the Troploin journal discuss the changing nature of capitalism and class struggle in the globalised 'post-Fordist' era.
WHAT? WHY? HOW?1
- 1. This is a slightly modified version of G.Dauvé and K.Nesic's Il va falloir attendre I Bref rapport sur l'état du monde, troploin, 2002 (also available on our site). We've left out nearly all notes that refer to French language books and magazines.
Re-visiting the east ... and popping in at Marx's - Gilles Dauvé
Apart from North Korea and Cuba, no country calls itself socialist any more. So why bother about old debates on the nature of the USSR? Since capitalism rules the world, what else is there to know?! A great deal.
It’s crucial to understand why Russia was capitalist in 1980, or 1930, or 1920, if we wish to understand what capitalism really is, and what can and must be revolutionized in Russia as well as in Britain in the XXIst century.
The continuing appeal of religion - Troploin
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French left-communist journal Troploin doing exactly what they say on the tin. The social function of religion; "The quest for the supernatural does not stem from an excessive but from a limited imagination built by millenniums of exploitation and oppression: the incapacity to be free on Earth incites humans to situate freedom out of this world. Dreams and desires are displaced persons. This is the stuff religion is made of."
For a world without moral order - Gilles Dauve - Treason pamphlet
Gilles Dauve's critique of morality, in a pamphlet by Treason.
Whither the World - Gilles Dauve, Treason pamphlet
This pamphlet contains the articles "Whither the World" which was written by two communists from France Karl Nesic and Gilles Dauve in early 2002 and its sequel from September 2003, "The Call of the Void" by Nesic alone.
Correspondence between parts of the riff-raff-collective and Gilles Dauvé (aka Jean Barrot)
From Riff-Raff #7.
G., March 28, 2004
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Finally I have some personal questions I'd like to ask you. This is however not to ask you for "what you can't deliver".
To work or not to work? Is that the question? By Gilles Dauvé
The changing nature of work and resistance to it.
Letter on animal liberation, by Gilles Dauvé
This is a letter sent by French readers to the authors of Beasts of Burden (Antagonism Press, 1999, c/o BM Mahkno, London WC1N 3XX (www.geocities.com/CapitalHill/Lobby/3909).
This pamphlet has the merit of addressing a vital question: If communism is to transform the whole of daily life, it can't leave out our relation to animals and the way we eat. Beasts of Burden forces to rethink the whole "primitivist" debate. We hope to tackle this some day.
