(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #233 - Read: Claude Bitot, Rethinking Revolution (fr, pt)

From Marxism, the author of Rethinking revolution walked away. Although it raises 
essential issues in the period, he ventured into very questionable positions taken. ---- 
Bitot starts on an admittedly confusing statement but empirically observable: all mass 
movements aimed at upsetting the capitalist social order are presented in a backward stage 
of development. With the development of the market society, the working class gets more 
movement to try to improve comfort. ---- Despite a somewhat hasty conclusion, Bitot here 
raises one of the most pressing issues of the moment: how, in a capitalist system whose 
domination becomes more complete, a class can she find out? ---- For him, capitalism will 
collapse by itself due to its two major contradictions: its outer boundary, the 
environment in which it operates. Instead, the author believes that energy limitations 
cataclysm to Roland Emmerich.

internal abutting the possibility of constant capital appreciation. If the economy has 
so far mutated to avoid the falling rate of profit, it is now impossible for her to leave 
his last major contradiction: the third industrial revolution, that of microelectronics, 
resulting in a new explosion mechanization.

And the revolution in all this? Bitot's located after the collapse of capitalist 
civilization. Communism does not come spontaneously replace, hence the need for a party 
propagandist role, leaving the initiative to the masses. But the author is careful to 
explain how a cadre of the revolution could reproduce avoided a class society.

Meanwhile, it remains to be revolutionary groups may prove useful later, any intervention 
in the period is unnecessary.

And if the proletariat is currently more likely to lead this revolution, who will? This 
non-class Bitot thinks he sees looming on the horizon, whose premises would be 
decommissioned and the masses excluded from direct production (unemployed, workers in the 
service). However, the reflection that leads to the form of the power of this class is not 
an excuse for some interesting considerations on democracy. He recalled that it directly 
or not, is only an expression of the strong antagonism of modern societies, it can not but 
be transient and can not stand as a general form of power in a world without classes.

Claude Bitot shown here lucidity on changes in capitalism that everyone does not, but is 
false miracle solutions to all the issues raised. Nevertheless, this is a certainly not 
uninteresting book, for the clarity of the proposed analyzes or unavoidable reflection 
points it addresses.

Julien (AL Montpellier)

Claude Bitot, Rethinking Revolution, Which way to go beyond capitalism? , Friends of 
Spartacus, 2013, 13 euro