Eclipse And Re-emergence Of The Communist Movement
By (Author) Gilles Dauve
By (author) Francois Martin
PM Press
PM Press
23rd June 2015
United States
General
Non Fiction
335.4
Paperback
168
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
145g
This book argues that doing away with wage-labour, class, the State and private property is necessary, possible and can only be achieved by a historical break, one that would certainly differ from October 1917...yet it would not be a peaceful, gradual, piecemeal evolution either. Like their historical predecessors - Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Anton Pannekoek, Amadeo Bordiga, Durruti and Debord - the authors maintain a belief in revolution. This third English edition is updated to take into account the contemporary political situation; half is new material.
"Gilles Dauv is well-known in certain circles for his radical ideas about the functioning of modern capitalist society. The author has had a significant influence on both libertarian communists and anarchists."
--Is rank rankas press (Lithuania)
Gilles Dauv has worked as a translator and teacher. He is the author of essays and books on the Russian, German, and Spanish revolutions; and his texts What Is Situationism and Fascism/Anti-Fascism (written as Jean Barrot) have led a legendary existence in the samizdat pamphlet underground. Franois Martin was a member of the local section of the Trotskyist Fourth International. He was involved in the worker radical minority in the 1968 general strike and later active in communist circles.