ABSTRACT
The work of Jean Grave is little known in the English language, the most accessible accounts of his life and work being Louis Patsouras, Grave and the anarchist tradition in France, and Kenneth Steven Vincent's essay "Jean Grave and French Communist Anarchism". With respect to the economic ideas of exchange value, Grave explained the position that had been adopted by most communitarian anarchists. Grave knew that in asserting this condition of society that he would be facing, or had already faced, objections as to its feasibility and practicality. The clearest way in which to understand Grave's ideas is to follow the pattern of his thought as he worked his way through the most positive of his writings, La Societe au lendemain de la revolution and La Societe future. On the morrow of the revolution, he was equally certain that individuals 'who had learned to act without any compulsion' would not be 'silly enough' to reinstate power after having achieved 'victory.'
