Gilles Dauvé | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1947 (age 77–78) |
| Occupation | School teacher |
| Known for | Communization theory |
Gilles Dauvé (pen nameJean Barrot; born 1947) is a Frenchultra-left political theorist,school teacher, andtranslator,[1] associated with the development ofcommunization theory.
In collaboration with other left communists such asFrançois Martin andKarl Nesic, Dauvé has attempted to fuse, critique, and develop different left communist currents, most notably the Italian movement associated withAmadeo Bordiga (and its heretical journalInvariance), German-Dutchcouncil communism, and the French perspectives associated withSocialisme ou Barbarie and theSituationist International.[2] He has focused on theoretical discussions of economic issues concerning the controversial failure ofSecond International,Marxism (including bothSocial Democracy andLeninist Communism), the global revolutionary upsurge of the 1960s and its subsequent dissolution, and on developments in globalcapitalist accumulation andclass struggle.[citation needed]
Among English-speaking communists andanarchists, Dauvé is best known for hisEclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist MovementArchived 2006-02-21 at theWayback Machine, first published by Black & Red Press (Detroit, Michigan) in 1974 andCritique of the Situationist International, first published in Red Eye,Berkeley, California. An essay from the first pamphlet, and the whole of the second article, were reprinted byUnpopular Books in London asWhat is Communism (1983) andWhat is Situationism respectively, in 1987. The first pamphlet was reprinted with a new foreword in 1997 by Antagonism (London). It includes Dauvé's own translations of two of his articles and one by François Martin, both originally published inLe Mouvement Communiste at theWayback Machine (archived October 28, 2009) (Paris: Champ Libre, 1972). These articles develop Bordiga's critique ofSecond Internationalproductivism in light of Marx's writings onformal and real subsumption and the global uprisings of 1968, and theory ofcommunization by drawing oncouncil communist and Situationist traditions.[citation needed]
Dauvé also participated in the journalLa Banquise, which he edited withKarl Nesic and others from 1983 to 1986. This sought to develop the new communist program suggested inLe Mouvement Communiste through a critical appraisal of post-1968 radical politics, including Situationist andautonomist experiments. It also developed the theory of society's real subsumption intocapital. The editors describe their aims and influences inThe Story of Our Origins at theWayback Machine (archived October 28, 2009) (La Banquise, 2, 1983).
More recently, Dauvé, along with Nesic and others, has published the irregular journalTroploin, featuring articles on the collapse of bothLeninist andKeynesian regimes of accumulation and the transition to "globalized"neoliberalexpansion, theMiddle Eastern conflicts,September 11, and the rhetoric and logic of thewar on terrorism. Many have been translated into English by Dauvé himself and are archived on theTroploin website.[citation needed]
The text surveys the Italian and German lefts, Socialisme Ou Barbarie and the Situationist International and describes the theoretical development of the French ultra-left.
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