Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement
Date
1974
Credits
- Jean Barrot
- François Martin Author
- Lorraine Perlman 29 Typesetter
- Black & Red 35
Format
- Book 579
Type of Work
- Finished work 5122
Printers
Publishers
- Black & Red 35
Techniques
Dimensions
5 × 8 in
Printed Pages
136
Locations Made
- Detroit 91
"Jean Barrot was a pen name for Gilles Dauvé. Fredy Perlman became friends with both Dauvé and Roger Gregoire in May 1968 in Paris. Lorraine Perlman described Dauvé as a libertarian Marxist (in contrast to the Situationists). The book was influential among the English-speaking “ultra-left” after it was published by Black & Red. A foreword reads in part: Capital has managed to invade and dominate our lives to such an extent that—at least in the developed countries—we are now revolutionary because we can no longer stand our relationship to our work, our friend, our environment, namely to everything from our next door neighbor to our favorite cat or radio program. We want to change the world because it becomes increasingly difficult to realize and assert oneself in it. Man’s most important need: the others, seems so close and so far at the same time. Communism, i.e., the human community, is at hand: only the inertia of society prevents it from emerging. But its basis is there. Capitalist social relations are strong, but fragile."
The Detroit Printing Co-op by Danielle Aubert
Front cover.
Title page.