Daniel Guerin (1904-1988)
As a youth, Guerin was attracted to the radical movement, and was won over
to revolutionary socialism as espoused by Leon Trotsky. As a member
of the
Trotskyist movement, he wrote Fascism and Big Business, one of the
premier
texts in the always-pugnacious battle over that term's definition. Like
Victor Serge, as Guerin grew older, his politics moved increasingly
leftward, leading him later in life to espouse a hybrid of anarchism and
marxism. Arguably, his most important book from this period of his life is
Anarchism:
From Theory to Practice,
which includes an introduction by Noam Chomsky. Extremely prolific in French, it's unfortunate
that,
outside of the books above and a few small pamphlets, most of this
thinker's
original and stimulating material is unavailable in English (a pamphlet,
"Libertarian Marxism?", which includes two singular essays, is also
available in English at this time).
(Bio by Chris Faatz)
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