DAS Unheimliche (Postcolonialism and far left reconfiguration). Around a configuration, starting from: Race and Capitalism, Les Cahiers de l'Empowerment, Syllepse, May 2012 ; Das Unheimliche (Postcolonialisme et reconfiguration à l'extrême gauche). Autour d'une configuration, à partir de : Race et Capitalisme, Les Cahiers de l'émancipation, Syllepse, mai 2012

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Abstract

Why this title, borrowed from Sigmund Freud1, why about a delivery to Syllepse of an Empowerment Cahiers issue? The statement is not a pathological reading, but more symptomatic, that is to say a way — in the way assumed of a "wilful" use of psychanalytic lexics as practised in the history of the present time — of questioning a part of the contemporary French far left agency 2, between academic strategy (s), political reconfiguration (s) around post-colonialism issues; Marxism and its effective policy on the French scene, offering a "Race and capitalism" dossier coordinated by Félix Boggio Éwanjé-Épée and Stella Magliani-Belkacem. At the juncture of the activist and the appointed researcher, the file is as disconcerted as it fits into contemporary issues on the far left, which identify a movance that squarely evokes, apart from Syllepse, La Fabrique, La DecOpen, the Amsterdam editions, but also as a result of the recensions La Revue des Books, in the meantime, when politically speaking seems to be more limited to dialogue between the PIR (Party of Indigenes of the Republic) and the NPA, closely intertwined activists, at least until July 2012. Let us explain our position: Dissidences, both collective and reviewed, focused on the extreme left and revolutionary movements in favour of the French development of gender and post-colonial studies concomitant with the riots in 2005, research paradigms and political reflections intertwined, deeply within the NPA, shared by some activists (from groups such as Le socialism par en bas or international Socialism), partly grouped together in the GA (Antiapitalist Left), which joined the Left Front at the beginning of July 2012. In the present case, that work could not leave us indifferent, particularly since the comments made, the intellectual reinforcement of policy proposals backed by research fields that we regularly time, play a part in their examination of an alarming strangeness, so that we do not give rise to questions. Let's pick up the proposal, the expression refers ...