Theorie Communiste

Roland Simon of Theorie Communiste elaborates TC's concept of 'cycle of struggles' in their periodisation of the possibility of revolution.

Theorie Communiste article on the specificity of contemporary capitalism and of the revolution as communisation.

This is a critique of Theorie Communiste's erroneous idea that the December 2008…

Theorie Communiste’s analysis of the December 2008 Greek riots.

In the wake of the organised left and the demise of working class self-identity, communisation…

A short summary and critical analysis of “Endnotes 1: Preliminary Materials for a Balance Sheet of the 20th Century” which "presents a discussion between two contemporary French groups on…

The last instalment of the Théorie Communiste-Aufheben debate.

We summarise a text by Theorie Communiste which focusses on the internal contradictions of the movement, how official representative…

Originally published as ‘Histoire normative et essence communiste du prolétariat’, Théorie Communiste no.16, 2000. A critique of Dauvé’s When Insurrections Die, TC attack Dauvé’s “normative” perspective, in which actual revolutions are counterposed to what they could/should have been – to a never-completely-spelled-out formula of a genuine communist revolution. In contrast, TC claim to give a robust account of the…

Aufheben present Theorie Communiste's reply and critique of their series of articles on decadence.