Re: CLJ James and Workers Councils

[Louis N Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 26 Aug 1995, Ralph Dumain wrote:
>
> Also, Cornelius Castoriadis, formerly of the French group
> Socialisme ou Barbarie, which was aligned with the James/Glaberman
> Facing Reality group for a time, has produced work on this topic.
> There is a old booklet by Castoriadis called WORKERS COUNCILS AND
> THE ECONOMICS OF A SELF-MANAGED SOCIETY (Wooden Shoe, 1984) that
> some radical bookstores still have.  I would imagine that material
> of this sort could be found in the three volumes of the POLITICAL
> AND SOCIAL WRITINGS of Castoriadis published by the University of
> Minnesota Press.
>

Louis:
If this is the same Castoriadis I saw at the Socialist Scholars
Conference, I definitely would like to track his writings down. Castoriadis
spoke on a panel on the former Soviet Union and was absolutely profound,
in the same league as Mandel.

He is a short, squat man who favors dark suits, white shirts and wears
horn-rimmed glasses which do not shield a fierce, penetrating gaze. I got
the impression he's some kind of Trotskyist, but I didn't hold this against
him.


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