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Paul Mattick — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1904–1981 · Germany / US · Theorist

Paul Mattick

Marx against Keynes

Crisis theory for the councils.

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The German-American council communist whose crisis theory and 'Marx and Keynes' kept the anti-Leninist, council tradition of Marxism alive through the 20th century.

social

Working-class autodidact progressive.

economic

Common ownership; rigorous Marxist crisis economics.

governance

Council communism carried into the American century.

Notable for
  • 'Marx and Keynes'
  • Council-communist economics
  • Crisis theory
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