Socialisme ou Barbarie, actually. They were a French left group, very influential in some circles. More details on wikipedia (where else?).
I just found out that there’s a bunch of their stuff been scanned in and posted on line, for readers of French this is awesome. My French is crap but maybe I’ll try and learn better. Here’s archive:
The URI to TrackBack this entry is: http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2009/10/13/was-socialism-or-barbarism/trackback/
RSS feed for comments on this post.
Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>
thanks for that…I opened one of the first there and found this:
“The American Worker by Paul Romano
You have to live
The worker is forced to work. He has no alternative but to produce in order to proce for himself the bare minimum necessary to existence. Most of his waking hours are spent in the factory. It is there that as a worker he has to think and act. Whatever the conditions of work in the factory, he has to work to live. This is the decisive factor that determines the attitude of the worker in the modern system of production. Perhaps it never occurs to him that he could be something other than a worker, but this doesn’t stop the thousand and one pressures of proletarian life from marking him profoundly.”
Comment by chabert — October 13, 2009 @ 3:48 am
(proce = procure)
Comment by chabert — October 13, 2009 @ 3:48 am
Supposedly the SoB journal regularly printed first-person accounts by worker militants, none of which I’ve been able to find in translation. Argh.
Comment by MJ — October 18, 2009 @ 10:26 am