Paul Mattick
German-American writer, Marxist theorist and revolutionary / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Marxist writer. For his son, see Paul Mattick Jr. For the rower, see Paul Mattick (rower).
Paul Mattick Sr. (March 13, 1904 – February 7, 1981) was a German-American Marxist political writer, political philosopher and social revolutionary, whose thought can be placed within the council communist[1] and left communist traditions.
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Born | March 13, 1904 |
Died | February 7, 1981(1981-02-07) (aged 76) |
Occupation(s) | Council Communist theoretician and social revolutionary, Toolmaker |
Years active | 1918– 1980 |
Known for | Left communist anti-Bolshevism, developing Karl Marx's and Henryk Grossman's theory of capitalism for contemporary economics |
Partner(s) | Frieda Mattick, Ilse Hamm Mattick |
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Throughout his life, Mattick continually criticised Bolshevism, Vladimir 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".[2]