Maurice Brinton
Introduction to Maurice Brinton/Christopher Pallis
Maurice Brinton, pen name of Christopher Pallis - UK, 1923-2005
Maurice Brinton was the pen name of eminent neurologist Chris Pallis, and a key thinker and writer of the British libertarian socialist group Solidarity. He translated from French much material by Cornelius Castoriadis/Paul Cardan and wrote vivid first-hand accounts of mass struggles such as Paris '68. As a neurologist his criteria for brainstem death have been internationally adopted.
Key texts: The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control - The State and Counter-Revolution
Groups: Solidarity
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Maurice Brinton/Chris Pallis archive
Solidarity archive
Brinton, Maurice
Pseudonym for Chris Pallis, British libertarian socialist, prominent neurologist and member of Solidarity.
The malaise on the left - Maurice Brinton
Among thinking socialists there is a deep malaise. The purpose of this article is to explore the roots of this malaise, and to show that they lie in the transformations of class society itself. Over the last few decades - and in many different areas - established society has itself brought about the number of the things that the revolutionaries of yesterday were demanding. This has happened in relation to economic attitudes, in relation to certain forms of social organisation, and in relation to various aspects of the personal and sexual revolutions. When this adaptation in fact benefits established society, it is legitimate to refer to it as "recuperation". This article seeks to start a discussion on the limits of recuperation.
Capitalism and socialism - Maurice Brinton
Maurice Brinton of Solidarity outlines his view of traditional socialists, and libertarian socialists.
Capitalism and socialism
by Maurice Brinton
from Solidarity, V, 6 (December 1968)
Introduction
Maurice Brinton's introduction to Phil Mailer's "Portugal - The Impossible Revolution?"
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Suicide for Socialism? - Brinton on the Jonestown massacre, 1978
Maurice Brinton's analysis of the bizarre mass suicide of a socialist cult led by American Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana. Discusses political sects in general.
'We're gonna die for the revolution. We're gonna die to expose this racist and fascist society.
Paris: May 1968 - Maurice Brinton's diary
A vivid and exciting eyewitness diary by Maurice Brinton (the writing pseudonym of Chris Pallis) of Solidarity on the events in Paris in May 1968.
Despite the optimism of the time, however, Brinton does not get too swept up in the events, and unlike some accounts of the time, manages to keep his views firmly rooted in reality.
Paris:May 1968
First edition published by Solidarity, June 1968 This edition published jointly by Dark Star Press and Rebel Press, 1986
Introduction
The Irrational in Politics - Maurice Brinton
The Irrational in Politics
Maurice Brinton, 1970
Propaganda and policemen, prisons and schools, traditional values and traditional morality all serve to reinforce the power of the few and to convince or coerce the many into acceptance of a brutal, degrading and irrational system.
(AS WE SEE IT - Solidarity)
N.B. There are some patriarchal and offensive comments in this essay.
The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control - The State and Counter-Revolution - Maurice Brinton
A remarkable pamphlet by Maurice Brinton exposing the struggle that took place over the running of workplaces between workers and the new state in 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.
II. Preface to Solidarity Edition
The fiftieth anniversary of the Russian Revolution will be assessed, analysed, celebrated or bemoaned in a variety of ways.
