Lucien Laurat

Otto Maschl (1898–1973), better known as Lucien Laurat,[1] was an Austrian Marxist and author, mostly known in the English-speaking world for his book Marxism and Democracy.[2] He was part of the Anti-Stalinist left.[3][1]

In Marxism and Democracy Laurat provides an examination into the views of Rosa Luxemburg and her critique of Leninism. He examines the way she describes the changing roles of governing forces away from simply imposing their will to maintain power to a system of enlightening the masses and becoming a function of their collective or a majoritive portion of their collective wills.[4] Laurat was one of the first to argue that the Soviet society was neither capitalist nor socialist, but a bureaucratic oligarchy (see Nomenklatura).[3]

Publications
gollark: ARM is improving *really* fast.
gollark: I mean, RISC-V is kind of good but I think more complex instructions might actually be a good idea, to keep the CPU execution bits happy and fed with stuff to do.
gollark: What is "something good" though?
gollark: TIS-100 assembly *is* an esolang.
gollark: You could actually do this on top of Python, it lets you delete builtins and meddle with most operations.

References
  1. Milani, Tommaso. Hendrik de Man and Social Democracy. Springer Nature. p. 109. ISBN 978-3-030-42534-0. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  2. van der Linden, Marcel (2007). Western Marxism and the Soviet Union: A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates Since 1917. Translated by Bendien, Jurriaan. Brill. pp. 69–73.
  3. Birchall, Ian H. (2004). Sartre Against Stalinism. Berghahn Books. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-78238-973-6. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  4. Understanding Marxism : an approach through dialogue, WHC Eddy, Basil Blackwell, Australia, 1979, pp 142


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