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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.

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PublisherA + K Press

ISBN-101849353832

ISBN-139781849353830

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Edition2

Book TitleFor Workers' Power : the Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton, Second Edition

Number of Pages440 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPolitical Ideologies / Anarchism, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism

Publication Year2020

GenrePolitical Science, Social Science

AuthorMaurice Brinton

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Reviews"An eloquent testimony to Maurice Brinton's life and works ... The work he started and the vision he held are as valid now as they were 50 years ago. The struggle, as they say, continues, and there is much here that can inform that struggle." --Richard Alexander, Kate Sharpley Library "For Workers' Power is a rousing collection of dozens of essays ... All [Brinton's] essays permeate with an intensely critical eye toward how everyday working people have and can liberate themselves from the oppression, drudgery, and weight of capitalism, while avoiding what Brinton saw as pseudo- or counterrevolutionary methods of many leftists. Brinton slays many of the Left's sacred cows: he hits the left-liberal political parties for their reformism, big trade unions for their hierarchy and disconnect from rank-and-file, and the main socialist and Leninist-Marxists groups for their power-lust and vanguardism. He even gives the anarchists, with whom he has the strongest affinity, an occasional lashing for some of their adherent's rashness and fantasy ... Brinton's writings have long-inspired left and radical movements, and hopefully with this printing will reach even wider audiences." --Dana Williams, International Labor and Working-Class History

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal335.43

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

SynopsisOver 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.