Gilles Dauvé

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Gilles Dauvé (French: [dove]; born 1947), also known as Jean Barrot, is a French writer and theorist associated with the ultra-left and the current of left communism. His work involves a synthesis of different traditions, primarily the German-Dutch Left (including council communism), the Italian Left (associated with Amadeo Bordiga), and the Situationist International. He is a central figure in the development of the theory of communization, which conceives of communist revolution not as the establishment of a transitional society but as the immediate abolition of capitalist social relations, including wage labour, exchange value, and the state. Dauvé's thought is organised around a critique of "socialist orthodoxy"—both the electoral path of social democracy and the revolutionary model of Leninism—arguing that both ultimately remain within the logic of capitalism. His intellectual trajectory has been divided into three main periods, reflecting shifts in the political climate from the late...

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