ماشین و نارضایتی‌های آن: مجموعه‌ای از فردی پرلمن

Of the generation that came of age through the turbulent events of May 1968, Fredy Perlman is certainly an individual that shines brightly. He participated in a student-worker action committee at the Sorbonne, which had been occupied by its students. During these intense event filled weeks he came across ideas and histories that would influence him over the following decade: the political critiques of the Situationist International, anarchism and the history of the Spanish Revolution, and the council communists. Perlman was responsible for co-translating and making available to an English speaking audience many important texts of the left-libertarian movement including Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle, Voline’s The Unknown Revolution, Jacques Camatte’s The Wandering of Humanity, I.I. Rubin’s Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value, and Jean Barrot & Francois Martin’s The Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement. This anthology gathers together Perlman’s own writings on the 1968 worker-student uprisings in France, the US and Yugoslavia, his illuminating essays on capitalist social relations and Marx’s concept of ‘commodity fetishism’, criticisms of ‘revolutionary leaders’, critiques of left nationalism, and concludes with a questioning of the Western notions of ‘civilisation’ and ‘progress’. Contents 5 Introduction by Darren Poynton 7 Part One: Worker-Student Uprisings 11 Anything Can Happen 12 American “Common Sense” 12 The Events 13 “Scientific Basis” Of The “Common Sense” 17 “Common Sense” Explodes 21 Worker-Student Action Committees 23 Evaluation and Critique 23 Limits of the Escalation 23 Self Organization in General Assemblies 29 Self-Organization in Action Committees 32 Critique of Actions 37 Partial Liberation of the Militants 41 The Partial Character of the Revolutionary Theory 51 Birth of a Revolutionary Movement in Yugoslavia 55 Part Two: Critique of Political Economy 79 The Reproduction of Daily Life 80 Daily Life in Capitalist Society 81 Alienation of Living Activity 82 The Fetishism of Commodities 85 Transformation of Living Activity into Capital 88 Storage and Accumulation of Human Activity 97 Essay on Commodity Fetishism 102 Part Three: Critique of Leaders 141 Ten Theses on the Proliferation of Egocrats 142 The Seizure of State Power 148 Part Four: Critique of Nationalism 193 The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism 194 Part Five: Critique of ‘Progress’ 229 Progress and Nuclear Power 230 The Destruction of the Continent and Its Peoples 230 Bibliography 238 Texts by Fredy Perlman 238 Translations of F. Perlman’s Texts 241 Works Translated by Fredy Perlman 242 Texts about Fredy and his Works 243 Index 245