I missed this when published a couple of years ago – a previously unpublished lecture by Henri Lefebvre, taken from his archives, which have been deposited at IMEC and are being catalogued – see the initial notice.

Henri Lefebvre, “Socialisme industriel et socialisme paysan” / “Industrial Socialism and Peasant Socialism“, Actuel Marx, 2023, eds. Claire Revol and Armelle Lefebvre (requires subscription)

Cet inédit issu du fonds d’archives Henri Lefebvre est la retranscription d’une conférence prononcée en 1959 qui porte sur l’évaluation des enjeux des luttes paysannes, mal saisis selon l’auteur. Il est augmenté d’une présentation qui insiste sur l’inscription de ce thème dans un programme précoce qui, attaché à la question de la rente foncière dans la perspective des textes de jeunesse de Marx, alimentera la réflexion lefebvrienne sur les formes sociales comme fondements de la sociologie historique de Marx. Selon Lefebvre, les travaux incessants de Marx sur la dissolution de la propriété collective au cours de l’histoire et hors du contexte européen sont à la fois inaboutis et insuffisamment compris, alors qu’ils faisaient une place plus importante au socialisme paysan.

This unpublished work from the Henri Lefebvre archives is a transcript of a lecture given in 1959 on the evaluation of the issues involved in peasant struggles, which, according to the author, were poorly understood. It is supplemented by an introduction emphasizing the inclusion of this theme in an early program which, dedicated to the question of ground rent from the perspective of Marx’s early texts, would feed into Lefebvre’s thinking on social forms as the foundation of Marx’s XV historical sociology. According to Lefebvre, Marx’s incessant work on the dissolution of collective _ property in the course of history and outside the European context was both unfinished and insufficiently understood, even though it gave greater prominence to peasant socialism.

A useful supplement to Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography, eds. Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, trans. Robert Bononno et. al., Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022.