André Senik (born 1938), is a French associate professor of philosophy and former communist activist.
Biography
Senik was born to Polish Jewish parents in the
Sentier
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neighbourhood of Paris in 1938. He later joined a number of political groups, including
MAPAM
Mapam ( he, מַפָּ״ם, an acronym for , ) was a left-wing political party in Israel. The party is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Meretz party.
History
Mapam was formed by a January 1948 merger of the kibbutz-based Hashomer Hatz ...
, the Union of Republican Youth of France, and the
Union of Communist Students
The Union of Communist Students (french: Union des étudiants communistes, UEC) is a French student political organization, part of the '' Mouvement Jeunes Communistes de France'' (MJCF, Young Communists Movement of France). It was founded in 1939 ...
(UEC). He studied philosophy at the Parisian lycée in Janson-de-Sailly, where he met
Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond
Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond (born 1940) is a physicist and essayist.
Biography
After high school in Cannes, Lévy-Leblond studied mathematics at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly (Paris), then entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1958. A member of ...
. He was also editor-in-chief of ''Clarté'', the press organ of the UEC.
In May 1968 he was appointed professor of philosophy at the
Lycée Henri-Bergson in Paris, where he participated in protests and supported revolts by high school students against the constraints of the school system. He was sanctioned by Minister
Olivier Guichard and suspended for one year in 1969.
and
Alain Forner, the last two general secretaries of the UEC, and twenty-one colleagues appealed for his reinstatement.
After gradually withdrawing from communism, he adopted anti-communist positions. In the 2000s he was part of the
Cercle de l'Oratoire The ''Cercle de l'Oratoire'' ( French for "Circle of the Oratory") is a French think tank created a short time after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Since 2006, it edits a journal, ''Le Meilleur des mondes''. The Circle is led by the journalist Mi ...
, a pro-American think tank. He published ''The Communist Manifesto in the Eyes of History'' in 2015. It argues that the text by Marx and Engels carries the seeds of the totalitarianism of the 20th century.
Roland Jaccard
Roland Jaccard (22 September 1941 – 20 September 2021) was a Swiss writer, journalist, and literary critic.
References
1941 births
2021 deaths
2021 suicides
People from Lausanne
Swiss male writers
Male journalists
Swiss literary c ...
André Senik pulvérise le Manifeste du Parti communiste
'' Causeur'', 12 janvier 2016
Works
* ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party in the Eyes of History'', Éditions Pierre-Guillaume de Roux, 2015.
* ''Marx, Jews and Human Rights'', Editions Denoël, 2011
Bibliography
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Hervé Hamon
Hervé is a French masculine given name of Breton origin, from the name of the 6th-century Breton Saint Hervé. The common latinization of the name is Herveus (also ''Haerveus''), an early (8th-century) latinization was ''Charivius''. Anglicized ...
et
Patrick Rotman, ''Génération. 1. Les années de rêve'', Paris, Le Seuil, 1987 .
References
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French philosophers
1938 births
Living people