Gauche prolétarienne

Gauche prolétarienne
Formation	1968
Type	Far-left political movement
Purpose	proletarian revolution
Headquarters	Paris
Location	France;
Main organ	La Cause du peuple

The Gauche prolétarienne (GP) was a French Maoist political party which existed from 1968 to 1974. As Christophe Bourseiller has put it, "Of all the Maoist organizations after May 1968, the most important numerically as well as in cultural influence was without question the Gauche prolétarienne".^[1]

The GP was formed in October 1968. After a split in the Union des jeunesses communistes marxistes-léninistes (UJC-ML), several members - including Olivier Rolin, , Jean-Claude Vernier, the brothers Tony and Benny Lévy, Jean Schiavo, Maurice Brover and - formed the new party. In 1969 the former student union leaders Alain Geismar and Serge July joined the group.^[1]

Several members of the group were involved with the founding of the French daily Libération which evolved into a centre left mainstream mass circulation daily newspaper.^[2]

The group was also known as "Mao-spontex", or Maoist-spontaneists. The connection to Spontex, a cleaning sponge brand, was intended as a pejorative to disparage the GP's antiauthoritarianism approach to revolution.^[3]

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^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Julian Bourg (2007). "Violence and the Gauche prolétarienne". From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. pp. 51–60. ISBN 978-0-7735-8100-5. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
^ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/26/maoist-slavery-sect-far-left
^ Bourg, Julian (2017). From Revolution to Ethics, Second Edition: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought. MQUP. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-7735-5247-0. It did not take long for the GP-ists to become known as "Mao-spontex," or Maoist-spontaneists. The name was originally an insult—Spontex was the brand name of a cleaning sponge—intended to belittle the group's embrace of antiauthoritarianism as an element of revolutionary contestation. The marxisant tradition had long criticized spontaneism as an anarchistic error.

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[Bourg2007-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Julian Bourg (2007). "Violence and the Gauche prolétarienne". From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. pp. 51–60. ISBN 978-0-7735-8100-5. Retrieved 26 January 2013.

[2] ttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/26/maoist-slavery-sect-far-left

[Bourg2017-3] Bourg, Julian (2017). From Revolution to Ethics, Second Edition: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought. MQUP. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-7735-5247-0. It did not take long for the GP-ists to become known as "Mao-spontex," or Maoist-spontaneists. The name was originally an insult—Spontex was the brand name of a cleaning sponge—intended to belittle the group's embrace of antiauthoritarianism as an element of revolutionary contestation. The marxisant tradition had long criticized spontaneism as an anarchistic error.

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