The communists and peace : with a reply to Claude Lefort /

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980

The communists and peace : with a reply to Claude Lefort / The communists & peace Jean-Paul Sarte - New York, NY : George Braziller, c1968 - 307 pages ; 22 cm.

Translation of Les communistes et la paix, first published in book form in v. 6 of the author's Situations; and of Réponse à Claude Lefort, first published in volume 7 of Situations. Les Communistes et la Paix originally appeared in Les Tempes Modernes, nos. 81, July 1952; 84-85, October - November 1952; 101, April 1954. Response a Claude Lefort originally appeared in Les Tempes Modernes, no. 89, April 1953. Les Communistes et la Paix was originally published in book form in Jean-Paul Sate, Situations, VI. This text includes a glossary composed of individuals and organization associated with the originally publication and the events that it revolves around.

The communists and peace : I. The May 28th demonstrations -- II. The June 4th strike -- III. The causes -- A reply to Claude Lefort.

"Sartre's analysis of the relationship between the proletariat and the Communist Party and his conclusions regarding the implications for Marxism." -- online The Communists and Peace, written by Jean-Paul Sartre, was first published as three articles in the French newspaper Les Temps Modernes. These article were published following the arrest of Jacques Duclos in the 1950s, following a violent protest. The books works to critic the usurpation of unions in France against the Soviet Union by liberal forces. Sartre diagnosis the main tool of the usurpation as the movement among French unions to divorce economic and political concerns. This is couched as an overall movement of unions away from the influence of the French Communist Party and the Soviet Union, a movement that Sartre thinks represents a serious loss of power for unions. Sartre goes on to argue that unions that choose to operate outside the bounds of the international system of socialist and union organizations will inevitably fall into disrepair. Sartre finishes by including a reply to critics of his writing on this topic from the author Claude Lefort. --From the cataloger


This text was originally published in French and translated into English.

0241015022 9780241015025

68017390


Parti communiste français.


Working class--France.

JN 3007 .C6 / S33 1968

329.9/44