Gilles Dauvé


Gilles Dauvé is a French ultra-left political theorist, school teacher, and translator, associated with the development of communization theory.

Biography

In collaboration with other left communists such as François Martin and Karl Nesic, Dauvé has attempted to fuse, critique, and develop different left communist currents, most notably the Italian movement associated with Amadeo Bordiga, German-Dutch council communism, and the French perspectives associated with Socialisme ou Barbarie and the Situationist International.
Among English-speaking communists and anarchists, Dauvé is best known for his , first published by Black & Red Press in 1974 and , first published in Red Eye, Berkeley, California. An essay from the first pamphlet, and the whole of the second article, were reprinted by Unpopular Books in London as What is Communism and What is Situationism respectively, in 1987. The first pamphlet was reprinted with a new foreword in 1997 by Antagonism. It includes Dauvé's own translations of two of his articles and one by François Martin, both originally published in .
Dauvé also participated in the journal La Banquise, which he edited with Karl Nesic 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 capital. The editors describe their aims and influences in .

In English

  • Jean Barrot et François Martin, Black & Red Press, 1974
  • , with Denis Authier, 1976
  • , 1979
  • ''From Crisis to Communisation''

    In French

  • Jean Barrot, Le Mouvement communiste, Champ Libre, 1972
  • Jean Barrot, Communisme et question russe, La Tête de feuilles, 1972
  • Jean Barrot, La Gauche communiste en Allemagne, 1918-1921, Payot, 1976
  • Jean Barrot, Bilan, Contre-révolution en Espagne 1936-1939, Paris, U.G.E. 10/18, 1979
  • Collectif, Libertaires et « ultra-gauche » contre le négationnisme, préf. Gilles Perrault, ill. Tony Johannot, contributions de Pierre Rabcor, François-Georges Lavacquerie, Serge Quadruppani, Gilles Dauvé, en annexe : Les Ennemis de nos ennemis ne sont pas forcément nos amis, Paris, Réflex, 1996
  • Gilles Dauvé, Banlieue molle, HB Éditions, 1997
  • Gilles Dauvé, Quand meurent les Insurrections, ADEL, 1999
  • Denis Authier, Gilles Dauvé, Ni parlement, ni syndicats: Les conseils ouvriers!, Les Nuits rouges, 2003
  • Gilles Dauvé, Karl Nesic, Au-delà de la démocratie, L'Harmattan, 2009