Jacques Camatte

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Jacques Maurice Camatte (French: [ʒak kamat]; 18 February 1935 – 19 April 2025) was a French writer and theorist. He began his intellectual career as a leading figure in the ultra-left Bordigist movement, a doctrinaire current of Marxism. After breaking with Bordigism following the events of May 1968, he developed a radical critique of Marxism itself, capitalism, and industrial civilisation. His work became highly influential on anarcho-primitivism. Camatte's thought is best known for its periodisation of capitalism. Drawing on Karl Marx's concept of the subsumption of labour under capital, Camatte argued that capitalism had moved from a "formal" to a "real domination" over society. In this later stage, which he termed the "domestication" of humanity, he contended that capital had become a self-perpetuating "material community" that remade all social relations in its image, effectively absorbing the proletariat and neutralizing class conflict. Consequently, he rejected the traditional Marxist...

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