Tribute to Jacques Camatte
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Tribute to Jacques Camatte
The always intriguing French ultra-left Marxist Jacques Camatte seemed to feel that if there was ever going to be a revolution of the sort envisioned by so many traditional leftists, it was not likely to take place in the exact way they imagined. According to traditional notions of Marxist-inspired thought, the international industrial proletariat was supposed to, in a relatively instantaneous fashion, organize itself in order to directly confront and destroy state power, while simultaneously seizing control of society's productive apparatus and beginning to socialize it. Camatte, however, felt that this was a pipe-dream, an outdated and leftover vision of 19th century rationalism. In fact, he felt that there was absolutely no need for self-defined revolutionaries to waste their energies organizing in order to instigate for and effect the social changes they wished to see occur. As the torturously oppressive conditions of life created by capital became more widespread and universally felt in their myriad forms, people would naturally and largely unself-consciously begin to resist them and begin to gradually transform human culture in its entirety.
Naturally, many revolutionaries and activists find his position irksome because it clearly negates their influence and diminishes the importance of the activities undertaken by most revolutionary groups. He insisted that, independently of the various ideological "mafias," the revolution was already underway, its transformative power churning constantly just below the visible threshold of our increasingly global culture, latent in repressed human desire. And whereas most socialist agitators confined their critiques and activities to the realm of political economy, Camatte, in contrast, felt that the revolution would be, indeed MUST be, total and abolish the burgeoning dominance of capital over the collective life and being of humanity in all its aspects. His vision certainly encompassed the more materialistic socio-political realm, but also extended to seemingly apolitical arenas of human activity as the cultural and spiritual. It was his ultimate assertion that the real communist revolution would be so profound in its implications that it would be cosmic in scope.
We in AAA Insurgent Cosmos salute this largely forgotten theorist and visonary, whom we regard as a seminal influence, a spiritual predecessor and advisor, and a cosmic comrade worthy of a revival. The brief preamble above hardly does any justice at all to the scope and originality of his thought. For more of his writings on the web, please see:
The Democratic Mystification at [http://www.geocities.com/~johngray/demyst.htm]
The Wandering of Humanity at [http://www.geocities.com/~johngray/camwan01.htm]
Against Domestication at [http://www.geocities.com/~johngray/agdom.htm]
About the Revolution at [http://www.geocities.com/~johngray/abtrev.htm]
[http://arghfuckkill.blogspot.com]
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