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Jacques Camatte
Jacques Camatte is a French writer who once was a marxist theoretician and member of the Internationalist Communist Party, a primarily Italian left communist organisation under the influence of Amadeo Bordiga, which denounced the USSR as capitalist and aimed to rebuild a "true" Leninism; following the theses of the early Italian Communist Party (under Bordiga's leadership), it refused all participation in electoral systems and generally considered democracy a perversion of class struggle and a means of oppression. Camatte left the ICP in 1966 to protest against its "activist" turn, and to defend the purity of revolutionary theory in his journal Invariance.
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