Raoul Victor

Raoul Victor is a French Marxist author who writes about free software, market relations and the possibility of radical social change. He was born in Venezuela and lives in Paris. http://raoulv.perso.neuf.fr/

- Raoul Victor, on Free software, the sharing culture, and Marxism

The Visibility of the Revolutionary Project and New Technologies

URL = http://raoulv.perso.neuf.fr/Visibility.rtf

Raoul is the pen name of a French socialist activist. His thesis is that the widespread emergence of sharing practices makes possible a visioning of what a non-capitalist future would look like, something hitherto impossible, and on of the key sources for the failure of radical social change efforts. This is a key text from within the Marxist tradition.

Free Software and Market Relations

http://www.oekonux.org/texts/marketrelations.html

This essay defends the idea that free sofware is a germ of what the future society may look like, and is translated from a debate within a French Marxist group.

Free Software and Marxism

http://raoulv.perso.neuf.fr/MarxismFS.rtf

The author examines three questions: 1) To which extent is Marxism confirmed by the reality of free-software? 2) To which extent is Marxism questioned by this reality? 3) Which relation between class struggle and free-software?

Free Software and social movements

http://raoulv.perso.neuf.fr/FS_social.rtf