Castoriadis, Cornelius
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  1. Hierarchy of salaries and incomes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974   Published: 1979
    The official ideology's justification of hierarchy does not coincide with either logic or reality.
  2. On the Content of Socialism: Part 1
    From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Idea of the Proletariat's Autonomy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1955
  3. On the Content of Socialism: Part 2
    From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Idea of the Proletariat's Autonomy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1955   Published: 1957
    The development of modern society and what has happened to the working-class movement over the last 100 years (and in particular since 1917) have compelled us to make a radical revision of the ideas on which that movement has been based.
  4. On the Content of Socialism: Part 3
    From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Idea of the Proletariat's Autonomy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1955   Published: 1958
    We have tried to show that socialism is nothing other than people's conscious self-organization of their own lives in all domains; that it signifies, therefore, the management of production by the producers themselves on the scale of the workplace as well as on that of the economy as a whole; that it implies the abolition of every ruling apparatus separated from society; that it has to bring about a profound modification of technology and of the very meaning of work as people's primordial activity and, conjointly, an overthrow of all the values toward which capitalist society implicitly or explicitly is oriented.
  5. The Role of Bolshevik Ideology in the Birth of the Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1962
    People have not finished talking about the Russian Revolution, its problems, its degeneration, and about the regime it ultimately produced. And how could one? Of all the revolts of the working class, the Russian Revolution was the only victorious one. And of all the working class's failures, it was the most thoroughgoing and the most revealing.
  6. What Is Important?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    It is necessary to demolish the monstrously false idea that the problems that workers see are not important, that there are more important ones which only "theorists" and politicians can speak about.