Gilles Dauvé (

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Jean Barrot; born 1947) is a French political theorist,

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, and translator associated with left communism and the contemporary tendency of communization.

Biography

In collaboration with other left communists such as François Martin and

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, Dauvé has attempted to fuse, critique, and develop different left communist currents, most notably the Italian movement associated with Amadeo Bordiga (and its heretical journal '' Invariance''), German-Dutch council communism, and the French perspectives associated with '' Socialisme ou Barbarie'' and the

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. He has focused on theoretical discussions of economic issues concerning the controversial failure of Second International, Marxism (including both Social Democracy and Leninist Communism), the global revolutionary upsurge of the 1960s and its subsequent dissolution, and on developments in global

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and

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. Among English-speaking communists and anarchists, Dauvé is best known for hi
''Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement''
first published by Black & Red Press ( Detroit, Michigan) in 1974 an
Critique 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 by

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in London as ''What is Communism'' (1983) and ''What 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 in (Paris: Champ Libre, 1972). These articles develop Bordiga's critique of Second International productivism in light of Marx's writings on

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and the global uprisings of 1968, and theory of communization by drawing on council communist and Situationist traditions. Dauvé also participated in the journal ''La Banquise'', which he edited with

and others from 1983 to 1986. This sought to develop the new communist program suggested in ''Le Mouvement Communiste'' through a critical appraisal of post-1968 radical politics, including Situationist and autonomist experiments. It also developed the theory of society's real subsumption into

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. The editors describe their aims and influences in (''La Banquise'', 2, 1983). More recently, Dauvé, along with Nesic and others, has published the irregular journal ''Troploin'', featuring articles on the collapse of both Leninist and Keynesian regimes of accumulation and the transition to "globalized"

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, the Middle Eastern conflicts, September 11, and the rhetoric and logic of the War on Terrorism. Many have been translated into English by Dauvé himself and are archived on th
Troploin
website.

Bibliography

In English

''Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement''
Jean Barrot et François Martin (alias de François Cerutti), Black & Red Press (Detroit, Michigan), 1974. * , 1979 *
''and the S.I.?''
(originally published in ''La Banquise'', no. 4, 1986)
''The Perplexities of the Middle Eastern Conflict''

''Grey September''
(on the issues raised after September 11, 2001, with Carasso and Nesic)
''Back to the Situationist International''
* ''From Crisis to Communisation'' (PM Press, 2019)

In French

* Jean Barrot, ,

Champ Libre Champ Libre is a French publisher founded in 1969 by Gérard Lebovici in Paris. The name is taken from a phrase which means "free field" (the way is clear). In 1984, after the assassination of Gérard Lebovici, Champ Libre changed its name and bec ...

, 1972. * Jean Barrot, , La Tête de feuilles, 1972. * Jean Barrot, , Payot, 1976. * Jean Barrot, , Paris, U.G.E. 10/18, 1979.( téléchargeable cf. liens externes) * Collectif, , préf. Gilles Perrault, ill.

Tony Johannot Antoine Johannot, known commonly as Tony Johannot (9 November 1803 – 4 August 1852), was a French engraver, illustrator and painter. Biography He was born in Offenbach am Main. His father, François Johannot (c. 1760–1838), owned a silk fac ...

, contributions de Pierre Rabcor, François-Georges Lavacquerie, Serge Quadruppani, Gilles Dauvé, en annexe : '' Les Ennemis de nos ennemis ne sont pas forcément nos amis'' (mai 1992), Paris, Réflex, 1996. * Gilles Dauvé, , HB Éditions, 1997 * Gilles Dauvé, , ADEL, 1999 * Denis Authier, Gilles Dauvé, , Les Nuits rouges, 2003 * Gilles Dauvé, Karl Nesic, , L'Harmattan, 2009

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