By David Curtis
Cornelius Castoriadis is almost immediately Director of experiences on the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. he's a thinker, social critic, expert economist, practising psychoanalyst and one in every of Europe's best thinkers. The Castoriadis Reader offers for the 1st time an outline of the author's paintings and encompasses each point of his proposal.
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Daniel Mothe, who came to the group in 1 952, did some systematic work at Renault; with some workers from the factory, he published and distributed a few hundred copies of Tribune Ouvr£ere on the inside. Henri Simon, for his part, played an important role in a movement of employees at a large insurance company; they set up a 'council' of their own and broke with the unions . Other working-class contacts were established here and there, a few correspon dents from the provinces began. to appear.
A group is founded on the basis of an affinity of ideas, it goes about its little business, the participants, ten or fifteen of them, have known one another for a long time, they meet together and each has come to like the way the others smell, they are isolated but have a few outside con tacts. No problem. One fme day - after May '68, let us say - a hundred guys, it matters little who they are, show up at their meeting and ask, 'Is it open? ' They are told: 'Yes, of course. ' Then, the person who was 12 A n Introductory Interview supposed to read the agenda for the meeting says, 'We had decided to dis cuss today subjects A, B, and C .
But one can not avoid the fact that it is they who have committed themselves to assuming responsibility, in an ongoing way, for the tasks the collective, the militants, have set for themselves, and that it is they who assume responsibility as well for the decisions made as to their own orientation and activities. To pretend to suppress the scission between militants, members of the organization, and the others by refusing to say who is and who is not a member of the group is to evade, in thought alone, the real difficulties that arise from the fact that there are people for whom work in a collectivity .