Value, time and communism: re-reading Marx - Gilles Dauvé
Dauvé re-examines Marx and looks at some of the contradictions in his work on work, value and labour-time.
Limit analysis and its limits - Research & Destroy
A critique of communisation as a mode of enquiry, by Research & Destroy in Sic.
The conjuncture: a concept necessary to the theory of communisation
Article by RS in Sic on the importance of the concept of "the conjuncture" in communisation.
Communist measures - Leon Mattis
Leon Mattis on class struggle, and specifically when and how struggles can have communist content.
Sic: international journal for communisation
Online archive of Sic, a journal about communisation produced jointly by Endnotes in the UK/US, Blaumachen in Greece, Théorie Communiste in France, Riff-Raff in Sweden, and certain more or less informal theoretical groups in the US (New York and San Francisco) and various individuals in France, Germany and elsewhere.
Spontaneity, mediation, rupture
Endnotes on communisation, organisation, spontaneity and the possibilities of current struggles.
What next? - Troploin
Gilles Dauvé and Karl Nesic look back over 12 years of their Troploin project and where to go from here amidst austerity and working class defeat.
Marx’s critique of socialist labor-money schemes and the myth of council communism’s Proudhonism - David Adam
In this article, David Adam takes aim at Gilles Dauvé's critique of the council communists, which has been influential in the communisation milieu.
Marx, Engels, Luxemburg and the return to primitive communism - Mark Kosman
Submitted by ptar on Dec 18 2012 13:24
Marx, Engels and Luxemburg were all keen to return to the egalitarian relations of primitive communism, at a higher level. But how does the egalitarianism of early human societies connect up with Marxism’s prime focus on the rise and decline of capitalism? As capitalism continues to disintegrate, this article looks at the egalitarian origins of money in ancient Greece for clues as to how we might transcend the whole money system.
Communisation theory and the question of fascism - Cherry Angioma
A critical look at some assumptions of communisation theorists - considering that their often determinist historical predictions are not the only possible outcomes. "Communisation resulting in a classless society is only one of the possibilities on the horizon".
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