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Primarily known for his work "The Bolsheviks and Workers Control", a pamplet detailing the developements of working class resistance and defeat at the hands of the Bolshevics during the Russian Revolution.
From an introduction to "The Bolsheviks and Workers Control" http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/russia/sp001861/bolintro.html:
"The Bolsheviks and Workers Control is a remarkable pamphlet by Maurice Brinton 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 organisation and some 26 years after the original was written this is perhaps its greatest contribution today. For this reason alone this text deserves the greatest possible circulation today and we encourage you to link to it, download the text or otherwise circulate it."
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"It's original author was not an anarchist, but belonged to the sister groups 'Solidarity' and 'Socialism or Barbarism' (France) which were libertarian marxist."
Brinton also authored "The Irrational in Politics", 1974
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