Socialisme Ou Barbarie
Influential French libertarian Marxist group who broke with Trotskyism soon after the Second World War.
The Working Class and Organisation
The Working Class & Organisation (A)
by Cornelius Castoriadis, 1959
What really matters
WHAT REALLY MATTERS
In issue number 3 of Pouvoir Ouvrier, a schoolteacher posed the following question: Why don't workers write? He showed in a profound way how this is due to their total situation in sociey and also to the nature of the so-called education dispensed by schools in capitalist society. He also mentioned that workers often think their experience "isn't interesting."
The Contradiction of Trotsky - Claude Lefort
The Contradiction of Trotsky
By Claude Lefort
Mao Tse Tung and the Chinese Revolution
Mao Tse Tung and the Chinese Revolution
Theses on the Chinese Revolution (1967)
The Marxist Philosophy of History
THE MARXIST PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
The marxist theory of history claims in the first place to be scientific, i.e. to be a generalisation susceptible to validation or challenge at the level of empirical research. As a scientific theory, which it undoubtedly is, it was inevitable that it should share the fate of every important such theory.
Lyotard, Jean-Francois, 1924-1998
A short account of academic Jean-Francois Lyotard's time as a revolutionary libertarian socialist.
The post-modern French philosopher who died on April 21 is of little interest to us as revolutionaries. We wish to recall his time as a revolutionary before the pressures of a career and the ebbing of post 1968 hopes turned him into a darling of the sociologists.
Castoriadis, Cornelius, 1922-1997
A short account of the life and politics of Greek libertarian socialist Cornelius Castoriadis.
Cornelius Castoriadis was born Kornelios Kastoriades in Istanbul to a Greek family. Growing up in Athens he joined the Young Communists in 1937 and the Communist Party in 1941.
