| Resumen |
Communication and class struggle, a two-volume work, is the first general marxist anthology of writings on communications, information and culture. Its purpose is to analyse the relationship between the practice and theory of communication and their development within the context of class struggle. Armand Mattelart and Seth Siegelaub, the editors, have selected 128 essential marxist and progressive texts originating in over 50 countries and written since the mid-nineteenth century to explain three interrelated phenomena: (1) how basic social, economic and cultural processes condition communication; (2) how bourgeois communication practice and theory have developed as part of the capitalist mode of production; and (3) how in the struggle against exploitation and oppression, the popular and working classes have developed their own communication practice and theory, and a new, liberated mode of communication, culture and daily life. This second volume, 2. Liberation, Socialism, provides an analysis of the development of popular and working-class communication and culture, its theory and practice under different political-social and historical conditions, and its contemporary expression. (Font: Editor) |
| Sumario |
Preface: Working Notes On Social Relations in Communication and Culture / Seth Siegelaub -- Introduction: For a Class and Group Analysis of Popular Communication Practices / Armand Mattelart -- E. Popular Culture and Communication: Elements Towards a Definition: National-Popular Literature, The Popular Novel, and Observations On Folklore / Antonio Gramsci (Italy, 1929-35) ; Chile: Political Formation and the Critical Reading of Television / Michele Mattelart (Chile, 1971/France, 1979) ; Proletarian Culture and Proletarian Art / Leon Trotsky (USSR, 1924) ; The Proletarian Public Sphere / Oskar Negt, Alexander Kluge (FRG, 1972) ; Some Theoretical Problems in the Discussion of Working-Class Culture / Wolfgang Fritz Haug (FRG,1977) -- F. Popular Communication and Cultural Practices: 1. The Formation of Proletarian Organization and Communication: Support the Popular Press / Etienne Cabet, Laurent-Antoine Pagnerre (France, 1834) ; (from) The Civil War in France / Karl Marx (1871) ; Reading: The Proletariat and National Culture / Ambrosio Fornet (Cuba, 1975) ; Socialist Propaganda: Its Role and Forms / Pierre Lavroff (France, 1887) ; Party Organization and Party Literature / V.I. Lenin (Russia, 1905) ; Principles of Party Organisation / Communist International (USSR, 1921) ; The Communist Party During the Time of Its Pedagogical Illusions (January 1921 - November/December 1922) / Danielle Tartakowsky (France, 1977) ; The Tasks of the Communist Press / Adalbert Fogarasi (Hungary, 1921) ; The Worker Correspondent / Worker's Life (UK, 1928) ; Workers' Newsreels in the Netherlands (1930-1931) / Bert Hogenkamp (Netherlands, 1980) ; Popular Libraries and Libraries for the People / Guilia Barone, Armando Petrucci (Italy, 1976) ; Radio As A Means of Communication: A Talk On the Function of Radio Music / Bertolt Brecht (Germany, 1930) ; The Workers' Music Movement / Hanns Eisler (Germany, 1931) ; The Conquest of the Machines That Can Observe Things / Franz Höllering (Germany, 1928) ; The Worker's Eye / Edwin Hoernle (Germany, 1930) ; Tasks and Aims of the International Worker-Photographer Movement / Willi Münzenberg (Germany, 1931) ; The Popular Front and the Arts / Pierre Gaudibert (France, 1974) ; 2. Clandestine Communication: An Urgent Question / V.I. Lenin (Russia, 1899) ; Clandestine Communications: Notes on the Press and Propaganda of the Anti-Franco Resistance (1939-1975) / Lluis Bassats (Spain, 1976) ; Propaganda, Information, Training and Indoctrination / Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Cuba, 1961) ; The Underground Voice / Alexander Sibeko (South Africa, 1977) ; The Invisible Chile: Three Years of Cultural Resistance / Ariel Dorfman (1976) ; 3. National Liberation Movements: This is the Voice of Algeria / Frantz Fanon (Algeria, 1959) ; Towards A Third Cinema / Fernando Solanas, Octavio Getino (Argentina, 1969) ; The Experience of the Palestine Cinema / Hassan Abû Ghanima (Palestine, 1975) ; Final Paper: Mass Communication (Costa Rica, 1972) ; Intergovernmental Conference on Communication Policies in Asia and Oceania (Malaysia, 1979) Kuala Lumpur Declaration -- G. Socialist Communication Processes: The Character of Our Newspapers / V.I. Lenin (Russia, 1918) ; The Work of the People's Commissariat for Education / V.I. Lenin (Russia, 1921) ; Not By Politics Alone / Leon Trotsky (USSR, 1923) ; Radio, Science, Technology and Society / Leon Trotsky (USSR, 1926) ; The Cultural Revolution and the Book / A.B. Khalatov (USSR, 1931) ; Words Become Deeds: The Press and Books in the Soviet Union / Sergei Tretiakov (USSR,1933) ; The Future of the Book / El Lissitsky (USSR, 1926) ; Current Questions on the Information System in Yugoslavia / Tudo Kurtovic (Yugoslavia, 1973) ; Contributions From A Round-Table On Computers / (People's Republic of China, 1975) ; Communism Will Be Abundance Without Egoism: On Intellectual Property / Fidel Castro (Cuba, 1967) ; For An Imperfect Cinema / Julio Garcia Espinosa (Cuba, 1969) ; Information In Angola: Perspectives / Sebastiáo Coelho (Angola, 1976) ; Victory Is Certain: Guide For The Literacy Instructor / Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) (Angola, 1968) ; Speech to the Opening Session of the Conference / Jorge Rebelo (Mozambique, 1975) ; Resolution On Party Bookshops / Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) (Mozambique, 1975) ; Resolution On Documentation / Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) (Mozambique, 1975) -- H. Towards a Globalization of Struggles: 1. The lnterior of the Capitalist Communication Apparatus: Labour Power and Aesthetic Labour in Film and Television in Britain / Michael Chanan (UK, 1980) ; Brief Outline of the Trade Union Evolution in the Printing Sector / United Federation of Printing and Paper Workers, lnstitute of Sociology (Milan) ; The Post, Telegraph & Telephone: Is lt Still a Public Service?... Or Ravages of a Policy / Democratic Federation of PTT Workers-CFDT (France, 1975) ; The Computer Strategy of the Workers' Movement / Paola M. Manacorda (Italy, 1976) ; 2. The Intensification of Struggles: Continuity and Discontinuity in Communications: Points For A Polemic / Armand Mattelart (Chile,1972-3) ; Speech to the First Conference of Left Journalists / Salvador Allende (Chile, 1971) ; Art In Chile's Revolutionary Process: Guerilla Muralist Brigades / David Kunzle (USA, 1973) ; Global Analysis of the Evolution of the Cultural Dynamization Campaign / Armed Forces Movement (MFA) (Portugal, 1975) ; For A Television in the Service of the People / Portuguese Communist Party Cell of the Portuguese State Radio-Television (Portugal, 1915) ; 3. New Struggles New Communication Practices: Programme of Struggle / Strike Committee of the Ecole Natlonale Superieure des Beaux Arts (France, 1968) ; Declaration / Directors of Popular Theatres and Cultural Centres (France, 1968) ; Community Media and the Ideology of Participation / Council for the Development of Community Media (Quebec, 1977) ; Local Radio and Television Stations In Italy / Giuseppe Richeri (ltaly, 1979-80) ; Radical Librarianship / John Llndsay (UK, 1979) ; New Technologies, Decentralization and Public Service / Armand Mattelart, Jean-Marie Piemme (Belgium, 1980) -- Appendices: Selected Bibliography; Notes On Contributors |
