ABSTRACT
The history of the surrealist movement is the history of testing the concept of revolution. The surrealists would reject reductive political reason and not venture down the path of revolutionary insurrection. They trusted the utopian imagination, in accordance with the collective life of their free association, an association marked by the stimuli of passional motivations and novel practices. The choice was between affiliation with the French Communist Party (PCF) and the independence of their movement. If they proclaimed the proletarian revolution, they had, ipso facto, to renounce the surrealist revolution of the mind. Berl and Drieu availed themselves of the concept of revolution but their conclusions differed from those of the surrealists. In April 1967, the surrealists, having seemingly definitively swapped the dialectician Hegel for his contemporary Fourier, once again honoured the visionary in baptizing their new magazine L'Archibras. The surrealist group subscribed to types of collage: formal and material collage, concubinage or amorous collage and temporal collage.
