Eclipse and re-emeregence of the communist movement

Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the Japanese Edition of No. 1 and No. 2 of Le Mouvement Communiste; Foreword to the 1974 Black & Red Edition; Foreworld: Out of the Future (1997); 1. The Untraceable; 2. Wall Street v. Berlin Wall; 3. 1968 and All That; 4. Working Man's Blues; 5. High Hopes ... ; Chapter 1: Capitalism and Communism; 1. Wage-Labour as a Social Relation; 2. "Value" as a Destroyer ... and Promoter of Community; 3. Commodity; 4. Capital; 5. A World of Companies; 6. Bureaucratic (or "State") Capitalism; 7. Crisis; 8. Proletariat and Revolution.;The original essays included here were first written between 1969 and 1972 by people involved in the most radical aspects of the French general strike and circulated among left communist and worker circles. Over the years these three essays have been published separately in various languages and printed as books in both the U.S. and the UK with few changes. This third English edition is updated to take into account the contemporary political situation; half of the present volume is new material. The book argues that doing away with wage-labor, class, the State, and private property is necessary, possible, and can only be achieved by a historical break, one that would certainly differ from October 1917, yet it would not be a peaceful, gradual, piecemeal evolution either. Like their historical predecessors, the authors still believe in revolution.