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MILITANCY - HIGHEST STAGE OF ALIENATION Organisation des Jeunes Travailleurs Revolutionnaires 
Publication Details Le Militantisme Stade Supreme De L'alienation was first published in France in 1972 by the Organisation des Jeunes Travailleurs Revolutionnaires (OJTR). The OJTR was formed in the early 1970s. Originally it was inspired by the Situationist International, though it was to publish a pamphlet containing a lengthy critique of it. (The SI influences can be seen in this present text. The concept of militantism develops themes that can be found in some situationist writing and SI influence can also be seen in the approach to councillist organisation set out in the closing paragraphs). Subsequently the OJTR became influenced by left communism, in particular the mixture of german and italian left communist ideas developed by the milieu based around the bookshop La Vieille Taupe, from which came the group Le Mouvement Communiste. The group also produced texts under the name Quatre Millions de Jeune Travailleurs, a name adopted from a 1971 PSU youth publication ( Parti Socialiste Unifié - a small French Left Socialist Party ). In 1974 the OJTR organised a national conference (described in an article in La Banquise as a failure) and disappeared shortly afterwards. (One might reasonably wonder how far the OJTR applied its critique of militancy to itself). From the remains of the group came the text Un Monde Sans Argent : Le Communisme, published as three pamphlets by the 'Les Amis de 4 Millions de Jeunes Travailleurs' between 1975-76. This translation has been made from the French version which is on-line at the ADEL site and now also at the Communist Left site. The text refers to a number of French trotskyist and maoist groups - footnotes have been added to explain some of these references. |