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COMMUNIST JOURNAL, Abistorical project can hardly expeetto preserva eternal yout sheltered from every blow. REFLEXIONS AROUND CALL by Deni, Mating November 2 2005 “The need for communism traverses the eniey of the society of Capital The meri of Cal ein cai nore of hi and of eryng 0 “Gsm vratgis tat ive p otis ealzarion. ks wae comes fom the continually rxargntrempetion ro sink that the desire oveuablich diferent clans suBces to star prodscig them Call ass name incre snot ext of analyte oe debate, Ks Durpow is ott comvines or denownce, isc afm 0 expe, non this basis to annoutce a strategy for revolsion. Must we therefoceconchde, with Giles Dau, that “call cannot be r= fated, ether we hector we pay it bees”? (Call iin ts esl 0 discuss te “sensibly [se Jevident ‘ecoueages this eeaton fom the st Hines ofthe fist schol “Thins ell That to 87 aims at those who heart The ques tions nor to demonstrate oar, 0 convince. We wil 3 straight to he evident” Bat atthe same tine, alls the peal product 1 emma lananie pepembe 294 Da ‘SEErep ng Wkeatonconepea arene oe see .ninc wha pied epoca Core mapucnte rycen 7 See keene’ Nests en Ca Fae Mnineenbi tit ner neuseer ange ‘ESE Natettrenenayepa [ection oft pe nin iu aad ha Hea tancarqemnscanetccan barn evan eee Mendon heey es stone ‘Tha which characterizes the communi current i to sich ‘connon neyo fanansn satona ie cess of ts production, that i, what we term eomunization Gall explicit situates self in thi perspectives “As we appechend = incre perme ee Sie atoeenteeeeee Pearse emery aes a ay more Treated of estas Tharwhth spathrenent " Ihaprnangi wiring hrhsposna pears Seer peer eee eee it, the process of instituting communism can only cake the form of ‘collection of ats afcommurizatin ,Isuretion ets jost an Seclertoy, decisive momen inthis proces"(p 66) Bu onerary to Meeting howe peblemati sto iterrogare the conerpt of com ‘mucization, Cal pve commaniaation a deterinate content. in Cal he ee commanizaion i ystematially understood 38 “rsa common”In the previous quotaion for instance he “ats of communization” are desrted ax “making common sucha uch space, such-anesich mache, ocl-and-such knowledge”. “Tha which spun commons ws, as when is ai hat com munis a space ro iberate its use. This sense seven move visible Tote pts ofthe text Fac example: In Europe, se ineraton ‘of worker organizations ino dhe state management apparatus ~ the foundation of oil democracy ~ was pad for with the renun- ‘aon ofall ability to Bea nasance. Here oo the emergence ofthe {abou movement was a matter of ater solaris ofa urgent eed fr comumorism The Matoms di Puple were the las sblers {or this indineon berween the ned fae immediote commis tion and the stratepefequrements of «practical implementation ifthe revolutionary process p54) Even if commanination cone ‘eived at commonization of elacins is fst of all onthe basis ‘a sommon usages "Communinng a place means sting is use fread om the bas ofthis liberation experimenting with eed, imensfed and complicated relations(p 68) Ta the same lg if commnization is making common” then communism systematically sited with “sharing” The heme of sharing i ommipesent in Cal ‘One finds pariculacty developed in Proposition V inthe fol- owing erm: "That nus which s mos singular ells ro be shared Ber we not this not only that which we have ro share obviowsly Sncomparible with the prevaling order, but this onder stves 0 tack dowa any foan of sharing of whick ic doesnot lay dven the fale” Sharing isthe basi of collective ation as envisaged by Cal he say thar squating wl only make sense again for ws provided ‘hat we cai the basis ofthe sharing we eter ito.) Tino ‘The poin isnot that "sharing™ and commenism have nothing to do with another, bor we have ube understanding how they ean be synonymous. Sharing already exists in eapicalism: social int ‘os as important asthe fay faction on the basi of shang and even inthe counties wher apts ithe oldest and where the familial eelation seduces itself ois simplest expression (the pend slacion), capt even economical would no seve ‘without his fem of socal sharing all recogni, ina negative sens, that sharing lio const tive ofthe aptlist order in firming tha “the dont onder tives to track dowa ay foo of sharing of which does no lay down the rules" Barth re we to undesta that any sharing noe ‘consoled by the “domiane order” is «communist sharing? We ‘an imagine so given thar communi i prey ad simply asin lated to sharing cus conto “the question of communism 09 ‘oe han, to do away withthe police, and onthe oer, 1a elaborate ‘modes of sharing, se, between those who ive rogete” (44) ‘eis cve thatthe point i stil wo “elaborate modes f sharing”. ‘We alo in further along "I belongs to the commit way that we explain to ourselves and formulate the bai of ou shag.” ‘Thus communist shaving 8 oe give, ii to be elaborated. Bie how? Here the text eats i ai A cetin tnode of sharing leads to communism, OK, but which? Response, in subane: the one ‘that leads communism.» Nothing more f sido what can di ferent it fom he sharing adit in the wold of expel oer ‘han the face hat ths parculr sharing net Int a redeton ‘of rations. "Now communism stares from the experience of she. ing. And fst, fom the sharing of our nests, Nees are nok what ‘apis rule as accustomed ust. To need i never about needing ‘things withost a the same sme needing worlds” pp 4-63), From then on the defnitons of communis mulipy "By communin ‘wemeana cen discipline ofthe attention” Or again: "The com ‘munis question is about the elaboration of one relationship to the world 2 beings to ourselves” (63) abs ae smeaunism as the suppression of class society. Certainly ‘Cal atone st in the elaboration een gas Se ag Seneca jomsible, ne situation. The sees and the houses the language and cand ae ‘a system that Call supposes that there exists possible One tne attention to the process; casting from ourselves: «ll forms of slrization; making sure we donot disconnect afc, ‘ion and cooperation, (p68) The pooblem is tha “relation of production” isnot particular elton berwcen two people, or even ‘ended, ora thousand. Iris generalize social elation which

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