Gilles Dauvé Quotes

born 1947 France

Gilles Dauvé (pen name Jean Barrot; born 1947) is a French political theorist, school teacher, and translator associated with left communism and the contemporary tendency of communization.

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Also known as: Jean Barrot

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As neither of us is Politically Correct, "man" here means man + woman, and "mankind" means humankind.

Letter on Animal Liberation (1999)

Animals that kill usually have far more social relationships than those they prey upon.

Letter on Animal Liberation (1999)

Our critique of capitalism is precisely that value production turns everything, whether meat or poetry, into commodity, and that it's no use asking for more love poems and less hamburgers.

Letter on Animal Liberation (1999)

It's no coincidence that an acute sensibility to the condition of animals comes up at the same time as industrialised food and concentration camp style farming.

Letter on Animal Liberation (1999)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gilles Dauvé (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.