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Looking for the proletariat : Socialisme ou Barbarie and the problem of worker writing / by Stephen Hastings-King.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hastings-King, Stephen William, author.
- Series:
- Historical materialism book series ; Volume 71.
- Historical Materialism Book Series, 1570-1522 ; Volume 71
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Socialism--France--History--20th century.
- Socialism.
- Socialism--Philosophy.
- Working class--France--History--20th century.
- Working class.
- Working class writings--History and criticism.
- Working class writings.
- Industrial sociology--France--History--20th century.
- Industrial sociology.
- France--Politics and government--1945-1958.
- France.
- France--Social conditions--1945-1995.
- Socialisme ou Barbarie (Organization)--History.
- Socialisme ou Barbarie (Organization).
- Régie nationale des usines Renault--Employees--History--20th century.
- Régie nationale des usines Renault.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Looking for the Proletariat is a contribution to understanding the implosion of the Marxist Imaginary. The implosion is staged in terms of the first English-language history of the French revolutionary group Socialisme ou Barbarie from 1949 to 1957. It explains why Socialisme ou Barbarie was the only Marxist organization interested by worker experience and how the group’s anti-Leninist position on organization led it to privilege first-person worker narratives in order to understand worker experience and its revolutionary possibilities. Using the only first-person accounts of working-class experience in French industry of the 1950's, the book explores the disintegration of collective investment in the Marxist Imaginary that unfolded at Renault’s Billancourt factory in the aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution and the contexts that shaped it.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- 1 Where Things Start
- 2 Rethinking Revolutionary Theory
- 3 Frame: On Claude Lefort’s ‘L’Expérience Prolétarienne’
- 4 Working-Class Politics at Renault Billancourt
- 5 Looking for the Working Class
- 6 Reading Daniel Mothé
- Postface
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-23537-X
- OCLC:
- 879527430
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