From: "Bureau of Public Secrets" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 11:16 AM Ken Knabb's new translation of Chapter 4 of Guy Debord's THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE is online at http://www.slip.net/~knabb/SI/debord/4.htm Debord's book -- easily the most important radical book of the 20th century -- has been translated into over a dozen languages. There have been five or six different versions in English alone. This new translation of Chapter 4 incorporates the best renderings from those previous versions, but it is clearer and more accurate than any of them. Chapter 4 is not only the most important chapter of the book, it is also the easiest to understand because it deals primarily with concrete historical events, revealing the practical implications of ideas that are expressed more abstractly in the other chapters. The topics dealt with include Hegel, Marx, Bakunin, Lenin, Lukács, anarchism, utopian socialism, reformism, fascism, Bolshevism, Stalinism, Trotskyism, the Russian revolution, the Spanish revolution, Third World movements, workers councils, revolutionary organization, and the nature of the new revolt that Debord saw coming -- the revolt that burst into full view in 1968, less than a year after the original publication of the book. * * * The Bureau of Public Secrets website features numerous texts by and about Guy Debord and other members of the Situationist International, the notorious avant-garde group that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France. BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS PO Box 1044, Berkeley CA 94701, USA http://www.slip.net/~knabb [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.iww.org - when faced with injustice the polite response is attack. -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
