Jacques Camatte
Born
Plan-de-Cuques, France
Died
April 19, 2025
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Influences
Karl Marx, Amadeo Bordiga, Dutch-German communist left
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The Wandering of Humanity
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1975
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5 editions
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This World We Must Leave and Other Essays
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1994
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2 editions
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Against domestication
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1981
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4 editions
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The Democratic Mystification
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1977
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Capital and Community
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2011
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6 editions
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The Selected Works of Jacques Camatte
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2011
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2 editions
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Bordiga and the passion for communism
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Introduction to the 1974 edition of Amadeo Bordiga’s “Economic and Social Structure of Russia Today”
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The KAPD and the proletarian movement
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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.”
― This World We Must Leave and Other Essays
― 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".”
― Against domestication
― 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.”
― This World We Must Leave and Other Essays
― This World We Must Leave and Other Essays





















