Paul Mattick

Content by or about Paul Mattick (March 13, 1904 – February 7, 1981), a German-American Marxist political writer, political philosopher and social revolutionary, whose thought can be placed within the council communist and left communist traditions.

Paul Mattick

Lotta Continua Interview with Paul Mattick

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

Paul Mattick Interview by J.J. Lebel

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…

Otto Rühle

Otto Ruhle and the German labour movement - Paul Mattick

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

Rosa Luxemburg in retrospect - Paul Mattick

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

The New Capitalism and the Old Class Struggle - Paul Mattick

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

Critique of Marcuse and 'One dimensional man in class society' - Paul Mattick

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

Luxemburg versus Lenin - Paul Mattick

A comparison of Leninist vanguardism with Luxemburg's more subtle conceptions of working class organisation.

The Lenin legend - Paul Mattick

Council communist Paul Mattick debunks the myth of Lenin and his successors.

Council Communism - Paul Mattick

On the eve of World War Two, Mattick considers, once again, the organisational needs of the working class.