[5] Through its official journal, the Bulletin Communiste (until 1933), and then via the independently published la Critique Sociale, the DCCs influential members defended a marxist critical analysis of politics and culture.
Their most distinctive trait was a sharp criticism of Bolshevik state capitalism embodied in the Soviet Union from the mid 1920s onwards.
[6] In an attempt to demonstrate the inadequacy of Bolshevik state capitalism, the DCC published lengthy accounts of its writers' travels within the Soviet Union via the Bulletin Communiste.
In Kimry, a little town of koustari-cobblers, the administration wants to shut a church, and so a crowd offers passive opposition by regrouping en masse in front of the doors while shouting their disagreement - without the least bit of violence, but nevertheless, five are singled out by Soviet authorities and sentenced to death.
[7] Amongst its members the DCC counted Boris Souvarine and his partner Colette Peignot, the writers Raymond Queneau, Georges Bataille, the economist Lucien Laurat and two future leaders of the French Resistance Jean-Jacques Soudeille and Pierre Kaan,[8] the philosopher Simone Weil was invited to join, but chose not to join due to conflicts with Bataille.