ECLIPSE & RE-EMERGENCE OF THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT

by Jean Barrot and Francois Martin

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• Table of Contents

• Guide to Navigating This Text

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Publication Notes

• This book was first published by Black & Red in Detroit in 1974.
  
• Chapter 1, Capitalism and Communism was reprinted in the mid 1980's as What is Communism ? by Unpopular Books in London.
  
• This hypertext version first uploaded onto the internet September 1996.

From the Black & Red edition :
The essays included in the present work were written for the bulletin, Le mouvemente communiste (available from G. Dauvé, B.P. 95, 94600 Choisy-le-Roi, France). They were selected and translated by J.Barrot. The essay on "The Class Struggle and It's Most Characteristic Aspects in Recent Years" was written by F.Martin. the other two central essays, as well as the introductory materials and the appendices, were written by Barrot. Other works by the same author include: J.Barrot, Le mouvemente communiste (Paris: Champ Libre, 1972); J.Barrot, Communisme et question Russe (Paris: Société encyclopediqué française et Editions de la Tête de Feuilles, 1972); J.Barrot, A.Borczuk, P.Riviale, La légende de la gauche au pouvoir: Le front populaire (Paris: Editions de la Tête de Feuilles, 1973)

• This hypertext version of the text is identical to the Black & Red original except that spelling has been anglicised.
• This means that it retains the same numbering and lettering scheme.
• You may notice that in Chapter 1 there is no section I between sections H and J.
• Like Black & Red we feel that it will only be safe to publish this suppressed section on the eve of the revolution.
• Initiates may apply to us for a copy, however it will only be supplied on receipt of a valid ZOG illuminati password.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Foreword

• Preface to the Japanese Edition of No. 1
  and No. 2 of Le mouvement communiste
  1. Capitalism and Communism

  2. The Class Struggle and Its Most Characteristic Aspects
     In Recent Years: Re-Emergence of the Communist Perspective

  3. Leninism and the Ultra-Left
     • Appendix 1
       Open Letter to the Conference of Revolutionary Groups
       To Be Held in Britain in May, 1973

     • Appendix 2
       Notes on Trotsky, Pannekoek, Bordiga

     • Appendix 3
       Letter on the Use of Violence

Guide to Navigation

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