For Workers' Power
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For Workers' Power

The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton, Second Edition

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For Workers' Power

The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton, Second Edition

About this book

Over the last sixty years many radicals have had their eyes opened by the writing of Maurice Brinton. The most prolific writer of the British Solidarity group, which existed from 1961 to 1992, his work slaughtered countless sacred cows of standard leftist thinking. For Brinton, “actually existing socialism” did not, in fact, exist. He wrote with passion, clarity, and consistency on behalf worker self-activity and self-management and to decry those who reinforced passivity, apathy, cynicism, pecking orders, and alienation among workers. This oppressive behavior was, to him, as prevalent among state socialists and communist parties as it was among capitalists, because it enabled rulers, and would-be rulers, of every political stripe to deceive and manipulate those in whose name they claimed to act. Today, when a new crop of so-called democratic socialists are seeking state power, allegedly on behalf of working people, Brinton’s work is more relevant than ever.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. The Identity of Maurice Brinton
  3. Introduction
  4. 1: Socialism Reaffirmed
  5. 2: The Belgian General Strike: Diary, December 28–31, 1960
  6. 3: Revolutionary Organization
  7. 4: The Commune, Paris 1871 (jointly with Philippe Guillaume)
  8. 5: Introduction to Paul Cardan, The Meaning of Socialism
  9. 6: Preface to Paul Cardan, The Meaning of Socialism
  10. 7: Introduction to Paul Cardan, Modern Capitalism and Revolution
  11. 8: The Balkanization of Utopia
  12. 9: For Workers’ Power
  13. 10: Preface to Ida Mett, The Kronstadt Commune
  14. 11: The Russian Anarchists – and Kropotkin
  15. 12: France: Reform or Revolution
  16. 13: France: The Theoretical Implications
  17. 14: The Events in France
  18. 15: Capitalism and Socialism
  19. 16: Capitalism and Socialism: A Rejoinder
  20. 17: A Question of Power
  21. 18: Solidarity and the Neo-Narodniks
  22. 19: Introduction to Murray Bookchin, On Spontaneity and Organization
  23. 20: Preface to Pierre Chaulieu, Workers’ Councils and the Economics of a Self-Managed Society
  24. 21: Wilhelm Reich 1
  25. 22: Wilhelm Reich 2
  26. 23: The Sexual Revolution
  27. 24: As We See It
  28. 25: As We Don’t See It
  29. 26: The Malaise on the Left
  30. 27: Factory Committees and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
  31. 28: The Ulster Workers’ Council General Strike
  32. 29: Portuguese Diary 1
  33. 30: Portuguese Diary 2
  34. 31: Introduction to Phil Mailer, Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
  35. 32: Introduction to Paul Cardan, Redefining Revolution
  36. 33: Introduction to Cornelius Castoriadis, History as Creation
  37. 34: Suddenly This Summer
  38. 38: Castoriadis’s Economics Revisited
  39. Paris: May 1968
  40. The Irrational in Politics
  41. The Bolsheviks and Workers’ Control, 1917–1921: The State and Counter-Revolution
  42. Index
  43. Copyright
  44. Friends of AK Press