Amair, Bell, Castoriadis, Chatel, Lefort, Lyotard, Mothé, Panonicus, Romano, Véga, Weinberg

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A SOCIALISME OU BARBARIE ANTHOLOGY

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Socialisme ou Barbarie (1948–67) was a revolutionary group whose journal of the same name helped inspire France's May '68 student-worker rebellion and influenced generations of radicals worldwide. This Anthology, for the first time in print in the English language, restores the collective nature of the group's adventure, where manual and intellectual workers creatively, and not without profound disagreements, reflected and acted together in anticipation of a non-hierarchical, self-governing society.

The group radically reoriented critical revolutionary theory by affirming how social change emerges through ordinary people's everyday lives and struggles. In a world divided into two competing bureaucratic-capitalist camps, the autonomous grassroots response to rationalized forms of outside control (State-corporation-trade union-political party) would be workers' management – a conclusion stunningly confirmed, against traditional Left expectations, by the workers' revolts of 1953 and 1956 in the East, and by increasingly widespread challenges to established organizational forms in the 1960s in the West.

These texts not only examine the overall crisis of systems of domination, but explore their creative contestation in the workplace, in changing relations between the sexes and between generations, and in movements for national liberation (China, Algeria), to bring out "the positive content of socialism" while remaining clear-eyed about how bureaucratization may be reintroduced into emancipatory struggles.

        

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PART THREE: THE CRISIS OF THE BUREAUCRATIC SYSTEM

• The Meaning of the June 1953 Revolt in East Germany
  Albert Véga (Alberto Masó)

• Totalitarianism Without Stalin
  Claude Lefort

• The Hungarian Insurrection
  Claude Lefort

• Documents, Narratives, and Texts on the Hungarian Revolution

The Workers’ Councils of the Hungarian Revolution
by Pannonicus

The Re-Stalinization of Hungary
by Jean Amair

A Student’s Narrative

PART SIX: THE THIRD WORLD (ALGERIA & CHINA)

• Algerian Contradictions Exposed
  François Laborde (Jean-François Lyotard)

• The Social Content of the Algerian Struggle
  Jean-François Lyotard

• In Algeria, A New Wave
  Jean-François Lyotard

• The Class Struggle in Bureaucratic China
  Pierre Brune [Pierre Souyri]

PART SEVEN: MODERN CAPITALISM AND THE BREAK WITH MARXISM

• Recommencing the Revolution
  
  
• From Mr. First to Mr. Next, the Big Chiefs of Industrial Relations
  Daniel Mothé (Jacques Gautrat)
  
  
• Hierarchy and Collective Management
  S. Chatel (Sébastien de Diesbach)
  
  
• The Free Speech Movement and Civil Rights
  Jack Weinberg