Brinton argues that our political perceptions have been conditioned by social and sexual patterns to reinforce the dominant ideology, which results in both a need for authority and an inhibition of autonomous thought. "A brilliant summary of the underlying causes of the irrational in public life."--Our Generation

Irrational In Politics

Politics & Social Sciences

Brinton, Maurice

Politics & Government

Black Rose Books

Bolsheviks And Workers Control

Brinton undertakes an innovative analysis of the Russian revolution and its implications for workers' autonomy. As he demonstrates, an appreciation of the historical precedent can generate fresh insights into contemporary problems.

Business & Money

Economics

Brinton undertakes an innovative analysis of the Russian revolution and its implications for workers' autonomy. As he demonstrates, an appreciation of the historical precedent can generate fresh insights into contemporary problems.

Management & Leadership

The Bolsheviks and Workers Control is a remarkable pamphlet exposing the struggle that took place over the running of workplaces in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In doing so not only does it demolish the romantic Leninist "history" of the relationship between the working class and their party during these years (1917-21) but it also provides a backbone to understanding why the Russian revolution failed in the way it did. From this understanding flows alternative possibilities of revolutionary organization and some 40 years after the original was written this is perhaps its greatest contribution today. For this reason alone this text deserves the greatest possible circulation and we encourage you to link to it.

The Bolsheviks & Worker's Control

History

Russia

Black & Red

The Irrational in Politics

See Sharp Pr

Over the last sixty years many radicals have had their eyes opened by the writing of Maurice Brinton. The most prolific writer of the British Solidarity group, which existed from 1961 to 1992, his work slaughtered countless sacred cows of standard leftist thinking. For Brinton, “actually existing socialism” did not, in fact, exist. He wrote with passion, clarity, and consistency on behalf worker self-activity and self-management and to decry those who reinforced passivity, apathy, cynicism, pecking orders, and alienation among workers. This oppressive behavior was, to him, as prevalent among state socialists and communist parties as it was among capitalists, because it enabled rulers, and would-be rulers, of every political stripe to deceive and manipulate those in whose name they claimed to act. Today, when a new crop of so-called democratic socialists are seeking state power, allegedly on behalf of working people, Brinton’s work is more relevant than ever.

For Workers' Power: The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton, Second Edition

Sociology

AK Press

Maurice Brinton was the most influential member of the British Solidarity Group (1961–1992), which sought to inspire a mass movement infused with libertarian socialist politics. Disavowing the political orthodoxy of the times, Brinton sought to use the past as a guide, but not an anchor, in his visionary writings. Solidarity’s influence on the ’60s New Left, and today’s libertarian Global Justice Movement is a testament to their salience. Tactfully edited by David Goodway, For Workers’ Power includes articles, essays and pamphlets as well as Brinton’s classic works The Bolsheviks and Workers’ Control, Paris: May ’68 and The Irrational in Politics.
Maurice Brinton lives in London with his wife. Editor David Goodway is a professor of social history in Leeds.

For Workers' Power

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Irrational In Politics

Irrational In Politics

Bolsheviks And Workers Control

Bolsheviks And Workers Control

The Bolsheviks & Worker's Control

The Irrational in Politics

For Workers' Power: The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton, Second Edition

For Workers' Power