Transcripts of Jacques Camatte face-to-face open interviews

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The words of Jacques,
who was Oscar.

Camatte’s writings are dense and not immediately accessible. The thinker was aware of this, and — in the final phase of his life — he sought to offer a guide to those wishing to engage with his work. To this end, he left us three tools: the Index page on his website, an extremely concise and deliberate summary of his thought; the Glossary, developed over the years right up until the end; and his living word in the immediacy of the encounter: a series of six conversations-interviews, ranging from autobiographical accounts — precious as historical documents — to lessons for disciples and Platonic dialogues. These texts, audio recordings, and, in one case, a video, constitute the most direct path to a way of thinking that he defines in these very conversations as "théorie est charnelle." The three conversations with the Cercle Marx deserve particular mention: they bear witness to a master-disciple relationship sustained by the affective bond that Camatte always cultivated as a prerequisite for thought itself, and offer the clearest available key to a substantial body of concepts and results that remain widely misunderstood even among those who have begun to engage with his work. For anyone wishing to understand Camatte's contribution to the Marxian tradition, they are the natural starting point.