Comments on: We Are a Million in the Streets. Why Should We Go Home?

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:34:08 +0000

I had forgotten about that! I’d love to read it, if you don’t mind.

By: N Pepperell

N Pepperell — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:55:48 +0000

Yes, sorry – I should have given a better citation here – this is from the Solidarity account. I did my MA, by the way, on the Socialisme ou Barbarie group

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:21:00 +0000

hi NP,
You may know all this, but just in case – I’m pretty sure that account is a digitized copy of a pamphlet put out by the UK group Solidarity, who were a sort of Castoriadis-ist group when he was writing under the name Paul Cardan. Their main thinker was Maurice Brinton who has recently had a book of his writing published. A fair bit of their stuff is online and is quite good in my opinion. Re: Cohn-Bendit, I happened to read his Obsolete Communism book at the same time as Michael Perelman’s book on primitive accumulation — Cohn-Bendit quotes Trotsky at one point talking about Russian peasants and it’s eerily similar to one of the political economists Perelman quotes about peasants much earlier in the UK.
take care,
Nate

By: N Pepperell

N Pepperell — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:31:42 +0000

Hey mark – Sorry you were held in moderation – it should happen only on a first post. My sense has been that an enormous amount of contemporary theory flows through this event – at the very least, you can feel in many forms of theory the desire to fend off the sort of mechanistic types of Marxism that were used as justifications for helping to shut this movement down.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:39:45 +0000

thanks for the link supplying this material about may 1968. I confess to not knowing much about it directly, but feel my thinking has been influenced by the event.