The Exhaustion of Communism and the Party Form
- By Alain Bertho
- and Maurizio Lazzarato
Pages 135 to 142
Cite this article
- BERTHO, Alain
- and LAZZARATO, Maurizio,
- Bertho, Alain.
- et al.
- Bertho, A.
- and Lazzarato, M.
https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.010.0135
Cite this article
- Bertho, A.
- and Lazzarato, M.
- Bertho, Alain.
- et al.
- BERTHO, Alain
- and LAZZARATO, Maurizio,
https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.010.0135
April 21 marked the end of a political cycle in which the Left was identified with the workers’ movement. Communism and the party-form which became integrated into the state are now exhausted. The divide between the new social movements and the traditional sectors of the working class has widened. A party can no longer gather into itself the multiplicity of forms of politicization. This crisis of representation is a result of an ignorance of the new ways of constructing the common. It is necessary to pose the question of a political constitution of the people that would correspond to the new forms of subjectivity. The refoundation of communism necessitates both the definition of a specific project and a politics of unity.