Paul Mattick

Paul Mattick, Sr. (March 13, 1904 – February 7, 1981) was a Marxist political writer and social revolutionary, whose thought can be placed within the council communist and left communist traditions.Throughout his life he continually criticised Bolshevism, Lenin and Leninist organisational methods, describing their political legacy as: "...serving as a mere ideology to justify the rise of modified capitalist (state-capitalist) systems, which were ... controlled by way of an authoritarian state."↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑

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Birth dateMarch 13, 1904
Birth place
German Empire , Słupsk , Province of Pomerania (1815–1945)
Date of deathFebruary 07, 1981
Place of death
Cambridge Massachusetts

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