Temps critiques

The gilets jaunes, an analyser of the reproduction of capitalist social relations

Temps critiques — 2019-09-17T18:03:50Z

Now with a little hindsight, we can ask ourselves the question of what links a movement such as the yellow vests can maintain with what we have called “the revolution of capital”.1 One cannot say that it is the product of capital, because that would be close to a truism. It also cannot be said that it is the expression of capital, because the revolution of capital is not a ‘subject', but a process of forces tending towards what we have called capitalised society. There are forces that go in (…)

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What can remain from the yellow vests

Temps critiques — 2019-09-17T18:03:36Z

We said in March that the movement had reached a crest. What about today that the number of demonstrators, and those present at the General Assemblies, declines, that the roundabouts are not recovered? How can one continue to say: “We will not give up anything”, without being in denial of the weakening of the movement? It is for all of these reasons that it seems appropriate to us to evoke a simple question: what can remain of a movement like this? This is a question that requires leaving (…)

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Yellow vests: On the edge

Temps critiques — 2019-09-17T18:03:25Z

A ridge, a line marking a limit, that accompanies all uprisings because, by definition, we do not know when and how they are going to fall. What makes us glimpse this phase is that the yellow vests' movement is today stranded before several pitfalls that were nevertheless its strength yesterday. If it does not allow itself to be defined, it does not define itself
If the yellow vests' movement does not define itself, it is because it is not (anti-Semitic, anti-migrant, sexist, homophobic); (…)

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The envy of the French Revolution of the Yellow Vests

Temps critiques — 2019-09-17T18:03:13Z

From the first occupations of roundabouts, highway tolls, commercial areas, during street and square demonstrations, the emblems of the French Revolution are present and openly expressed by the Yellow vests. Tricolour flags, Phrygian caps, guillotines and the singing of the Marseillaise set the tone and punctuate the various forms of struggle. In meetings and on social networks circulate strategic slogans and modes of political action which, for the majority, make reference to the strong (…)

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A yellow costume that creates community

Temps critiques — 2019-09-17T18:02:58Z

The movement of the yellow vests seems to confirm a break in the historical thread of class struggles. It had already been initiated world-wide by the Arab Spring, the Occupy movement and the movements of the Squares, all of which had been at the head of mobilizations of demands concerning liberties, equality, living conditions in general; employment more than working conditions. It is also for this reason that these movements were addressed much more to the State than to employers, insofar (…)

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