Roger Dangeville (1 June 1925,

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– 9 September 2006, Mérindol-les-Oliviers) was a

left communist Left communism, or the communist left, is a position held by the left wing of communism, which criticises the political ideas and practices espoused by Marxist–Leninists and social democrats. Left communists assert positions which they rega ...

activist most noted for his translation of

Karl Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...

's ''

Grundrisse The ''Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie'' (''Foundations of a Critique of Political Economy'') is an unfinished manuscript by the German philosopher Karl Marx. The series of seven notebooks was rough-drafted by Marx, chiefly for ...

'' and his work with

Jacques Camatte Jacques Camatte (born 1935) is a French writer and former Marxist theoretician and member of the International Communist Party, a primarily Italian left communist organisation under the influence of Amadeo Bordiga. After Bordiga's death and ...

. Dangeville was of Alsatian origin, growing up bilingual. He had working class parents, Pierre Dangeville and Catherine Siegler He studied philosophy in Paris. In 1956 he was recruited to the

International Communist Party The International Communist Party (ICP) is a left communist international political party which is often described as Bordigist due to the contributions by longtime member Amadeo Bordiga, although the adherents of the party don't define themselv ...

(ICP) in 1956 by Suzanne Voûte. He soon started work on his translation of the ''Grundrisse'', with some partial translations being circulated within the ICP by 1959. For ten years he worked closely with

Amadeo Bordiga Amadeo Bordiga (13 June 1889 – 25 July 1970) was an Italian Marxist theorist, revolutionary socialist, founder of the Communist Party of Italy (PCI), member of the Communist International (Comintern) and later a leading figure of the Internati ...

, but broke with ICP in 1966. His following collaboration with

, who left the ICP at the same time, was short lived. While Camatte went on to found '' Invariance'', Dangeville founded ''Le fil du temps'' which ran from December 1967 to 1976 when the thirteenth and final issue appeared. Aside from producing a range of translations of the work of

he also translated

Karel Kosík Karel Kosík (26 June 1926 – 21 February 2003) was a Czech Marxist philosopher. In his most famous philosophical work, ''Dialectics of the Concrete'' (1963), Kosík presents an original reinterpretation of the ideas of Karl Marx in light of Mart ...

's ''Dialektika konkrétního'' (Dialectics of the Concrete) into French.

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