Jacques Camatte

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Jacques Camatte


Born
Plan-de-Cuques, France
Died
April 19, 2025

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Karl Marx, Amadeo Bordiga, Dutch-German communist left ...more


Jacques Camatte was a French writer, philosopher, Marxist theoretician and member of the International Communist Party, a primarily Italian left communist organisation under the influence of Amadeo Bordiga. After Bordiga's death and the events of May 68, his beliefs began to fall closer to the tendencies of anarcho-primitivism and communization, later influencing accelerationism. ...more

Average rating: 3.82 · 533 ratings · 51 reviews · 18 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Wandering of Humanity

3.89 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1975 — 5 editions
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This World We Must Leave an...

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Against domestication

3.66 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1981 — 4 editions
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The Democratic Mystification

3.27 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1977
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Capital and Community

3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions
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The Selected Works of Jacqu...

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Bordiga and the passion for...

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Introduction to the 1974 ed...

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The KAPD and the proletaria...

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Dialogue with Bordiga

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“All human life, from the very beginning of its development within capitalist society, has undergone an impoverishment. More than this, capitalist society is death organized with all the appearances of life. Here it is not a question of death as the extinction of life, but death-in-life, death with all the substance of power of life. The human being is dead and is no more than a ritual of capital.”
Jacques Camatte, This World We Must Leave and Other Essays

“The domestication of humanity and the escape of capital are concepts which can explain the mentality and activity of those who claim to be revolutionaries and believe that they can intervene to hasten the onset of revolution: the fact is that they are playing roles which are a part of the old world. The revolution always eludes them and when there is any kind of upheaval they see it as something external to them, which they have to chase after in order to be acknowledged as "revolutionaries".”
Jacques Camatte, Against domestication

“The autonomy of form affects all aspects of life dominated by capital. Knowledge is valid only if it is formalized, if it is emptied of content. Absolute knowledge is tautology realized; it is dead form deployed over all knowledge. Science is its systemization; epistemology is its redundancy.”
Jacques Camatte, This World We Must Leave and Other Essays