Cornelius Castoriadis

Content by or about libertarian socialist Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997) aka Paul Cardan, Pierre Chaulieu, Jean-Marc Coudray etc. Castoriadis was a co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group in 1948.

Cornelius Castoriadis, a.k.a. Paul Cardan

Cornelius Castoriadis, a.k.a. Paul Cardan

Reply to Castoriadis - Pannekoek

Pannekoek's final response to Castoriadis's letter in Socialisme ou Barbarie, translated by Asad Haider and Salar Mohandesi for Viewpoint…

Reply to Pannekoek - Castoriadis

A reply to Pannekoek's letter to Socialisme ou Barbarie, translated by Asad Haider and Salar Mohandesi for Viewpoint Magzine.

The illusion of 'Solidarity' - David Brown

David Brown's letter of resignation from the Solidarity group, and critique of the group's - and by extension Cornelius Castoriadis' - fundamental misunderstanding of Marx's critique of political economy.

The fate of Marxism - Paul Cardan

Part 1 of Paul Cardan AKA Cornelius Castoriadis' critique of Marxism.

The black horse of famine

History as creation - Cornelius Castoriadis

Castoriadis examines the interrelation between religious, Hegelian and Marxist philosophies of history, arguing that a true appreciation of human…

Lenin

The Role of Bolshevik Ideology in the Birth of the Bureaucracy

This article was first published in Socialism ou Barbarie#35(1964),as an introduction to Alexandra…

On the Content of Socialism I - Socialisme Ou Barbarie

On the Content of Socialism, Part One. From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Idea of the Proletariat's Autonomy From Class Against Class

Modern capitalism and revolution - Paul Cardan

Paul Cardan (Cornelius Castoriadis) attempts to describe and analyse the features and dynamics of the fully-industrialised capitalist societies of the early 1960s.

On the Content of Socialism III - Socialisme Ou Barbarie

French libertarian socialist group Socialisme Ou Barbarie's third part of the Content of Socialism:…

On the Content of Socialism II - Socialisme Ou Barbarie

Castoriadis, Cornelius, 1922-1997 - John Barker

An obituary and overview of the work of Cornelius Castoriadis, whose early theoretical writings had a strong influence on the UK Solidarity…

Petrograd Soviet, 1917

The working class and organisation - Cornelius Castoriadis

Excellent text by Cornelius Castoriadis from 1959 examining the problem with working class…