Manifesto of Libertarian Communism by Georges Fontenis

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A list of his publications in English can be found at the end of the volume. Guérin was a prolific writer on an exceptionally wide range of topics, and relatively little has been translated into English. I would also like to thank Chris Reynolds, Martin O’Shaughnessy, and Christophe Wall-Romana for their help in tracking down the source of Guérin’s reference to Armand Gatti Īnd Danny Evans and James Yeoman for their advice regarding films about the Spanish Revolution. We have tried (where possible and practical) to provide references to English translations of Guérin’s sources, and I am grateful to Iain McKay for his help with this. The footnotes are Guérin’s except where indicated additional explanatory material is followed by my initials. We are grateful to the Spartacus collective, to Daniel Guerrier, and to Anne Guérin for permission to publish these translations. We have tried to choose those texts which would be of most interest to present-day readers, but which also give a good understanding of Guérin’s developing analysis of the failings of the Left and of his belief that the only way forward was through some kind of synthesis of Marxism and anarchism. All of these contain slightly different selections of texts around a common core of recurrent pieces, and the same is true of this English edition. A further version of the collection was published after his death: Pour le communisme libertaire (Paris: Spartacus, 2003). They were written between the 1950s and 1980s and appeared in France in a series of collections: Jeunesse du socialisme libertaire (Paris: Riviere, 1959), Pour un Marxisme libertaire (Paris: Laffont, 1969), and A la recherche d’un communisme libertaire (Paris: Spartacus, 1984). This volume contains a selection of texts by the French revolutionary activist and historian Daniel Guérin (1904–1988), published here in English translation for the first time. The 1989 “Call for a Libertarian Alternative” The Libertarian Communist Platform of 1971 Libertarian Communism, the Only Real Communism Self-Management in Revolutionary Spain, 1936–1937 “Anarchy” Deduced from the French Revolution Proudhon and the Fundamental Importance of Self-managementįor a “Synthesis” of Marxism and Anarchism The Bankruptcy of Stalinism and Social Democracy Daniel Guérin and the “Synthesis” of Marxism and Anarchism

Manifesto of Libertarian Communism by Georges Fontenis