Jean Barrot

Dauve, Gilles (Jean Barrot)

Ed — Sun, 18 May 2008 17:16:36 +0000

Whither the world - Gilles Dauvé & Karl Nesic

Joseph K. — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:56:33 +0000

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

Joseph K. — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:18:40 +0000

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

Joseph K. — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:30:43 +0000

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

Peter — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:12:17 +0000

Gilles Dauve's critique of morality, in a pamphlet by Treason.

Whither the World - Gilles Dauve, Treason pamphlet

Peter — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:06:30 +0000

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

redtwister — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 20:35:48 +0000

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

libcom — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:18:12 +0000

A historical failure. That could be a blunt but not too unfair summary of the communist movement 154 years after Marx's and Engels's Manifesto.

One interpretation of such a miscarriage canters on the importance or prevalence given to work. From the 1960s onwards, a more and more visible resistance to work, sometimes to the point of open rebellion, has led quite a few revolutionaries to revisit the past from the point of view of work acceptance or rejection.

Letter on animal liberation, by Gilles Dauvé

libcom — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:09:14 +0000

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.

Grey September - Gilles Dauvé, Karl Nesic and J-P Carasso

libcom — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:22:25 +0000

The underpaid washer-up and the overpaid white collar who both died in the World Trade Center died as footsoldiers of a system that exploited their death (treating them as heroes of free trade and the free world) as it had exploited their life. They had little time to appreciate the much vaunted security they'd bought in exchange for their submission.

The Story of our Origins

libcom — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:34:15 +0000

The Story of our Origins

Giles Dauve

From the German Left to Socialisme ou Barbarie

from le roman de nos origines - La Banquise No. 2 (1983)

A communist movement, universal in nature, which had set out to conquer the world in capitalism's footsteps, had been led into not taking the offensive except in the centre of Europe. Now it was necessary for it to engage in drawing up an assessment, beginning with itself and with the contradictions of the counter-revolution.

The "Renegade" Kautsky and his Disciple Lenin - Gilles Dauvé

libcom — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:30:39 +0000

Publication Details

This article originally formed an afterword to an article by Karl Kautsky "Les trois sources du Marxisme" (The three sources of Marxism) which was reprinted in French in April 1977 by editions Spartacus. (serie B No.78).

When Insurrections Die - Gilles Dauvé

libcom — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:00:18 +0000

Brest-Litovsk, 1917 and 1939

"If the Russian Revolution becomes the signal for a proletarian revolution in the West, so that both complement each other, the present Russian common ownership of land may serve as the starting point for a communist development."

Critique of the Situationist International

libcom — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:57:24 +0000

Ideology and the Wage System

Capitalism transforms life into the money necessary for living. One tends to do any particular thing towards an end other than that implied by the content of the activity. The logic of alienation : one is an other; the wage system makes one foreign to what one does, to what one is, to other people.

Intakes: Back to the Situationist International

libcom — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:02:05 +0000

Critique of The Situationist International by Gilles Dauve (Jean Barrot) is one of the more important texts on the situatuionists.We reprint below an update to the text which is due to be published in Greek by TPTG.

Intakes: Fascism/Anti-Fascism - Barrot Replies

libcom — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 14:49:11 +0000

'Jean Barrot' responds to our review of his influential text Fascism/Anti-fascism: 'The proletariat is not weak because it's divided: its weaknesses breed division.'

Class war in Barcelona - Jean Barrot, 1973

libcom — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:40:04 +0000

Undercurrent #8

Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement

libcom — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:55:57 +0000

Paperback 136 pages
Publisher: Black and Red
ISBN: 0934868042

Fascism / Anti-Fascism - Gilles Dauvé

libcom — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:34:32 +0000

Totalitarianism & Fascism