Political and Social Writings

<div> <p><i>Political and Social Writings: Volume 1 1946-1955</i> was first published in 1988. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.</p> <p>A series of writings by the man who inspired the students of the Workers' Rebellion in May of 1968.</p> <p>Given the rapid pace of change in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and the radical nature of these transformations the work of Cornelius Castoriadis a consistent and radical critic of Soviet Marxism gains renewed significance. . . . these volumes are instructive because they enable us to trace his rigorous engagement with the project of socialist construction from his break with Trotskyism to his final breach with Marxism . . . and would be read with profit by all those seeking to comprehend the historical originality of events in the USSR and Eastern Europe. -Contemporary Sociology</p> </div>