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Reply to Pannekoek - Castoriadis

A reply to Pannekoek's letter to Socialisme ou Barbarie, translated by Asad Haider and Salar Mohandesi for Viewpoint Magzine.

Your letter has provided a great satisfaction to all the comrades of the group; satisfaction of seeing our work appreciated by a comrade honored as you are and who has devoted an entire life to the proletariat and to socialism; satisfaction of seeing confirmed our idea of a profound agreement between you and us on the fundamental points; satisfaction finally of being able to discuss with you and o

Re-collecting our past - La Banquise

Street barricades - Paris 1848

A summary of historical tendencies towards communism from 1848 to 1984 - via 1917 and 1968.

"[i]Most of this issue of La Banquise is devoted to a summary of the modern revolutionary movement. Summing up the past, including the recent past, and taking soundings of the contemporary period in order to recognise some of its basic tendencies, is essential in order to know who and where we are.

The Conspiracy of Equals and the birth of communism

Jean Léger examines the history of Gracchus Babeuf and his ‘Conspiracy of Equals’, a communist organisation which emerged during the French Revolution. English version from The Commune: first appeared as 'Babeuf et la naissance du communisme ouvrier' in issue 2 of critical Marxist journal Socialisme ou Barbarie (May-June 1949).

Open letter to members of the PCI and the “Fourth International” - Socialisme Ou Barbarie

An open letter to the French Trotskyist Parti communiste internationaliste and the Trotskyist "Fourth International" which their recent ex-members published in issue 1 of the critical Marxist journal Socialisme ou Barbarie in March 1949. Translation and notes by David Broder.

Note - [i]Our group was established in August 1946 as a tendency within the PCI, which at that time was preparing for its Third Congress.

History as Creation

THE MARXIST PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY

The Role of Bolshevik Ideology in the Birth of the Bureaucracy

Lenin

This article was first published in Socialism ou Barbarie#35(1964),as an introduction to Alexandra Kollantai's The Workers Opposition,but it can stand alone as a refutation of the standard Leninist/Trotskyist claim that the Soviet Union only degenerated post 1924 i.e after Lenin's death, and as such has been published in pamphlet form by a number of groups.

We are happy to present to our readers the first translation into French of Alexandra Kollontai's pamphlet The Workers' Opposition in Russia. This pamphlet was published in Moscow at the beginning of 1921, during the violent controversy that preceded the Tenth Congress of the Bolshevik party. This Congress was to close discussion forever on this controversy as well as on all the others.

What Is Bureaucracy

What Is bureaucracy

Claude Lefort

(From Telos #22)

On the Content of Socialism I - Socialisme Ou Barbarie

On the Content of Socialism, Part One.

From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Idea of the Proletariat's Autonomy
From Class Against Class

On the Content of Socialism, Part One.

From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Idea of the Proletariat's Autonomy

On the Content of Socialism III - Socialisme Ou Barbarie

French libertarian socialist group Socialisme Ou Barbarie's third part of the Content of Socialism: The workers' struggle against the organization of the capitalist enterprise.

We have tried to show[1] that socialism is nothing other than people's conscious self-organization of their own lives in all domains; that it signifies, therefore, the management of production by the producers themselves on the scale of the workplace as well as on that of the economy as a whole; that it implies the abolition of every ruling apparatus separated from society; that it has to bring ab

On the Content of Socialism II - Socialisme Ou Barbarie

Very detailed article by French libertarian socialist group Socialisme Ou Barbarie on "the development of modern society and what has happened to the working-class movement over the last 100 years" and how they "have compelled us to make a radical revision of the ideas on which that movement has been based."