The KAPD and the proletarian movement

by Jacques Camatte

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About the author

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.

Reviews

[Tom · Rating 3 out of 5]

Camatte appears to belong to the same theoretical moment that produced C.L.R. James, Autonomia, and the Red Brigades, the champions of “Leninism without socialist transition”. Camatte keenly identifies the pitfalls of various schemes self-management that exist within the Marxist left, that the process of production as it has been situated by capitalist development, belongs to capitalism in the same way the state does in its democratic form. In a similar fashion to C.L.R., Camatte sees that what he calls the “real subsumption” of labor by capital has undone the necessity of class dictatorship and that the immediate negation of the proletariat by itself has begun to be spearheaded by those proletarians separated from the direct-production process on the grounds of race. Here Camatte includes a much appreciated reference to James Boggs.