The Communisation Companion

<p>The teach-in and festival will focus on the term communisation that recently have become a term for debate within ultra-left revolutionary theory and practice. The days we spent together will consist of a combination of theoretical and practical workshops and film activities, such as screenings and a communist film production workshop.</p> <p><em>“Communism is not a set of measures to be put into practice after the seizure of power […]. All past movements were able to bring society to a standstill and waited for something to come out of this universal stoppage. Communisation, on the contrary, will circulate goods without money […] it will tend to break all separations.”</em><br /> Gilles Dauve and Francois Martin<br /> The Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement.</p> <p>Communisation can be broadly understood as the abolition of capitalism and the immediate production of communism within a revolution. Class relations, exchange, money, the domination of life by value, the state and its apparatuses of control – all would be negated in this process rather than maintained and utilised during a transitional phase towards communism. The process of communisation is communism and communism is communisation. In this communisation represents a break with ideas of revolution as the imposition of ‘workers control’ or the self-organised management of capitalism. Communisation would be the production of new social relations that would destroy our status as proletarians, contest everyday alienation, call into question gender relations and definitively displace capital as the organising principle of our world. The revolution as communisation would mean discovering desires and collective ways of living unacknowledged and almost unimaginable within capitalism…</p>