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# Paul Mattick

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Paul Mattick was a German-American Marxist political writer, activist, and theorist, associated with the council communist movement. Throughout his life, Mattick was critical of capitalism, Bolshevism, and Keynesian economics. His work focused on the critique of political economy, crisis theory, and

##  Quotes by Paul Mattick

> [“Ideological conformity depends on conditions of prosperity; it has no staying-power of its own.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-mattick/ideological-conformity-depends-on-conditions-of-prosperity-it-has-no/)

Paul Mattick

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