Paul Mattick

A critique of the economic ideas of Paul Mattick by Ron Rothbart.

A short biography of German council communist tool maker-turned academic Paul Mattick.

Comprised of six articles written in the years between 1974 and 1978, Economics, Politics and the…

"Taking refuge in the idea of spontaneity is indicative of an actual or imagined inability to form effective organisations and a refusal to fight existing organisations in a 'realistic' manner. For to fight them successfully would necessitate the formation of counter-organisations, which, by themselves, would defeat the reason for their existence."...

The difference between a reformist and revolutionary analysis of economy.

Why the parties and unions are obstacles to be overcome - and the need for working class self-organisation.

Interviewed in 1977 by Italian radicals, the late veteran council communist speaks on crisis, politics, organisation and revolution. This English…

This interview was given in February 1975. It was never published. Initially it was aimed to be part of a radio programme on workers' councils…

Paul Mattick critically analyses Otto Rühle's role in the German Revolution.

Mattick reconsiders the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, particularly her critique of Bolshevism and her economic theory.

Mattick surveys the historical organisational forms of the old workers movement, and how a changing…

Mattick challenges Marcuse's claim that capitalism can finally 'integrate' the proletariat into…