Victor Leduc
Victor Leduc , Résitant, militant and former Communist leader born in 1911 in Berlin and died in 1993 in Paris.
Biography
Victor Leduc, Valdemar Nechtschein of his true name, was born in Berlin in 1911, in a family of communist Russian Jews, exiled following the failure of the revolution of 1905. They arrive to France in 1914.
In 1934, Victor Leduc adheres to the Communist party and creates one of the first cells of establishment to the Saint-Louis college where he is house master. A few years later he is professor of philosophy in the Vosges, in Saint-Dié; there, it animates a circle named “the friends of the USSR” including during the signature of the pact germano-Soviet which it however affirms with difficulty to have lived. It is revoked in 1940 and engages in Resistance to the sides, inter alia, of Jean-Pierre Vernant, Jeanne Modigliani, Lucie Aubrac. In 1943 it is stopped by the French police force and is imprisoned with the power station of Eysses where it takes part in the revolt of the internees.
After the war it contributes to various press agencies; it directs initially Action (weekly Communist and independent which disappears at the beginning from the cold war) then is responsible for the R evue international movement of peace , and written various articles in Books of Communism , New Criticism and '' Humanity ''. Under the title “ Communism and Nation ”, it publishes in 1954 its reflections on a possible development within the PC of a design of the nation independent of the conflict of class.
Following the events of Hungary in 1956 it takes distances with PCF. It takes part then in the Comité of the Intellectuals against the war of Algeria, in the Spark and new Voies , both animated by Victor Leduc and Jean-Pierre Vernant, appears criticisms very virulent against the Algerian policy of France. In June 1968, it belongs to the Communists who request from the Office of the Party explanations on his line, and in 1970 it adheres to the PSU. But ten years, become national secretary later, it again reproaches its formation for having replaced by a “Socialism of person in charge” the self-management project. It tests contrary to reconciling the self-management and its design of “quiet alternation. ”
It also founded the review, Raison presents which claims traditional rationalism and university Marxism. It published in 1986 an autobiography under the title “ the tribulations of an ideologist ”.
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