Ne Yapmalı?

by Louis Althusser

Que faire ? Telle était la question que se posa Lénine en 1901, alors qu’il éprouvait des doutes sur la capacité révolutionnaire du monde ouvrier russe. Soixante-dix-sept ans plus tard, Louis Althusser décide de se l’adresser aussi. Confronté au reflux de Mai 68 et aux renoncements successifs du Parti communiste, il souhaite offrir à ses lecteurs un bref vade-mecum pour la révolution à venir. Un vade-mecum ramassé et tranchant, brillant et nerveux, tout entier tourné vers un objectif : parvenir à organiser la lutte de la classe populaire, de telle sorte qu’elle puisse l’emporter sur la classe bourgeoise. Pour Althusser, c’est l’occasion d’une critique virtuose des écrits d’Antonio Gramsci et de l’eurocommunisme, qui séduisent alors de nombreux marxistes. Mais c’est surtout l’opportunité de tenter de dire, en quelques pages, ce qu’il n’avait pas réussi à énoncer ailleurs : quelles conditions concrètes faut-il satisfaire pour qu’enfin la révolution ait lieu. Laissé inachevé, il est publié ici pour la première fois.

Genres: Nonfiction

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About the author

Louis Pierre Althusser (1918–1990) was one of the most influential Marxist philosophers of the 20th Century. As they seemed to offer a renewal of Marxist thought as well as to render Marxism philosophically respectable, the claims he advanced in the 1960s about Marxist philosophy were discussed and debated worldwide. Due to apparent reversals in his theoretical positions, to the ill-fated facts of his life, and to the historical fortunes of Marxism in the late twentieth century, this intense interest in Althusser's reading of Marx did not survive the 1970s. Despite the comparative indifference shown to his work as a whole after these events, the theory of ideology Althusser developed within it has been broadly deployed in the social sciences and humanities and has provided a foundation for much “post-Marxist” philosophy. In addition, aspects of Althusser's project have served as inspiration for Analytic Marxism as well as for Critical Realism. Though this influence is not always explicit, Althusser's work and that of his students continues to inform the research programs of literary studies, political philosophy, history, economics, and sociology. In addition, his autobiography has been subject to much critical attention over the last decade. At present, Althusser's philosophy as a whole is undergoing a critical reevaluation by scholars who have benefited from the anthologization of hard-to-find and previously unpublished texts and who have begun to engage with the great mass of writings that remain in his archives.

Reviews

[Roberto Roganovich · Rating 4 out of 5]

una lectura crítica de gramsci. qué con el eurocomunismo si la democracia es el medio y también el fin del proceso revolucionario ?

[Fran · Rating 4 out of 5]

Este escrito póstumo de Althusser revisa de manera crítica la teoría de Gramsci y también los desafíos del marxismo. Puede ser un aporte para la discusión sobre la praxis.
Por otro lado, no está exento de chismecito. Ya en la mitad del libro se empieza a sentir un tono bastante despectivo sobre Gramsci, llegando incluso a llamarlo “amateur”. La astucia.

[Andreas Chari · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting stuff on Gramsci and Eurocommunism