Background
He is the son of council communist theoreticians Paul Mattick Senior (1904-1981) and Ilse Mattick (1919-2009).
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Paul Mattick, Junior.
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Harvard University.
Career
Mattick was involved in the council communist group Root and Branch, which sporadically published a magazine/pamphlet series, starting in 1969. Other notable members include Jeremy Brecher, Stanley Aronowitz, and Peter Rachleff. Mattick obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard in 1981, and is currently chair of the Department of Philosophy at Adelphi University in New New York
He was previously the editor of the International Journal of Political Economy, and is the author of several books on philosophy of language, aesthetics, and the critique of political economy.
Social Knowledge: An Essay on the Nature and Limits of Social Science (1986).
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Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism (2011).
