Theorie Communiste
Theorie Communiste
French councilist-inspired ultra-left communists.
Théorie Communiste responds
The last instalment of the Théorie Communiste-Aufheben debate.
In Aufheben #11 we published a critique of our articles on ‘decadence’ (from Aufheben issues 2-4) by the French group Théorie Communiste (TC). In the following issue we published our reply to TC’s critique. Since then we have had a number exchanges with TC in which they responded to our reply.
The anti-CPE struggle report - Theorie Communiste
We summarise a text by Theorie Communiste which focusses on the internal contradictions of the movement, how official representative organisations undermined grassroots initiative and puts the protests in context with the riots of suburban youth.
The anti-CPE struggle
Extracts of an analysis by Theorie Communist
(...)
Who are we?
The first issue of the review Théorie Communiste (TC) came out in 1977. The original group involved had got together in 1975. Previously some of the members of this group had published the review Intervention Communiste (two issues appeared in '72 and '73) and had participated in the publication Cahiers du Communisme de Conseils - Notebooks on Council Communism.
Theorie Communiste
The fundamental problem to which all theoretical production must return, that must be confronted and to which it must find a resolution, is the following: how can the proletariat - acting strictly as a class of the capitalist mode of production, in its contradiction with capital within this mode of production - abolish capital, therefore all classes and therefore itself; that is to say, produce co
