Marxists Writers: Maurice Brinton

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Maurice Brinton

1923-2005

"For us, as revolutionaries, meaningful action is whatever increases the confidence, autonomy, initiative, participation, solidarity, egalitarian tendencies and self-activity of the masses, and whatever assists in their demystification. Sterile and harmful action is whatever reinforces the passivity of the masses, their apathy, cynicism, differentiation through hierarchy, alienation, reliance on others to do things for them, and the degree to which they can therefore be manipulated by others, even those acting on their behalf." (About Ourselves)


Articles:

1960 - Socialism Reaffirmed
1961 - The Belgian General Strike
1961 - Revolutionary Organization
1961 - The Commune, Paris 1871
1965 - The Balkanization of Utopia
1965 - For Workers' Power
1967 - As We See It
1967 - Preface: The Kronstadt Commune
1968 - France: Reform or Revolution
1968 - Paris: May 1968
1968 - Capitalism and Socialism
1969 - Capitalism and Socialism: A Rejoinder
1969 - France: The Theoretical Implications
1969 - The Events in France
1969 - A Question of Power
1970 - The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control recommended
1970 - The Irrational in Politics
1972 - Review: What is Class Consciousness?
1972 - Review: Dialectical Materialism and Psychoanalysis
1972 - As We Don't See It
1974 - The Malaise on the Left
1975 - Factory Committees and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

 

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