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Endnotes 1

Endnotes 1: Preliminary Materials for a Balence Sheet of the 20th Century Contents: EDITORIAL BRING OUT YOUR DEAD: An Introduction to the debate between Théorie Communiste (TC) and Troploin (Dauvé & Nesic) concerning how to theorise the history and actuality of class struggle and revolution in the capitalist epoch. WHEN INSURRECTIONS DIE BY GILLES DAUVÉ: Dauvé shows how the wave of proletarian revolts in the first half of the twentieth century failed: either because they were crushed by the vicissitudes of war and ideology, or because their “victories” took the form of counter-revolutions themselves, setting up social systems which, in their reliance on monetary exchange and wage-labour, failed to transcend capitalism. NORMATIVE HISTORY AND THE COMMUNIST ESSENCE OF THE PROLETARIAT BY THÉORIE COMMUNISTE: In their critique of When Insurrections Die, TC attack Dauvé’s “normative” perspective, in which actual revolutions are counter-posed to what they could and should have been, that is, to a never-completely-spelled-out formula of a genuine communist revolution. In contrast, TC claim to give a robust account of the whole cycle of revolution, counter-revolution and restructuring, in wh

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