Tonnage

 " . . .organizations are integrated into the machinery of the state, while the weight of the political sphere continually declines in the face of the constant expansion of the spheres of mass sports, the film industry, scheduled leisure, “popular” music, etc.

Since 1968 and the “return of social revolution”, the crisis of politics confronted the post-68 “communist left” with two intimately related problems which it cannot even pose correctly without beginning to renounce itself.
On the one hand, given that it still conceives communist revolution in the perspective of formal domination —as a process of political unification of the proletariat leading up to the seizure of power and the implementation of a programme —, it continues to believe in the need for a “a programmatically-armed militant stratum” whose mission would be, if not to become a hegemonic political organization just in time for its date with “revolution”, at least to transform its “consciousness” into the dominant revolutionary consciousness. This induces it to periodically fall prey to the illusion that social movements that do not manage to go beyond the sphere of politics (no matter how many “radical” moments they may contain) are somehow destined to flow into communist revolution, resulting in astounding flops which “revolutionary theory” cannot explain satisfactorily and from which it is unable to draw any other conclusion than “we’ll have to do better next time”.

On the other hand any organization that does not contribute direct or indirectly to the AI valorisation process soon finds itself confronting the dilemma of either adopting progress or extinction.