French revolutionary group and journal (1948-1965) co-founded by Cornelius Castoriadis and Claude Lefort, providing the earliest systematic critique of Soviet Communism as bureaucratic capitalism from a left perspective.
Identified the USSR as a form of bureaucratic capitalism rather than a degenerated workers' state; developed the concept of workers' self-management as the alternative to both capitalism and Leninism.
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