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**Christopher Agamemnon Pallis** was a neurologist ([a doctor
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specialising in the nervous system](Healthcare "wikilink")),
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neuroscientist (science of the brain), translator, and [libertarian
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socialist](List_of_Libertarian_Socialists "wikilink") and
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[marxist](Marxism "wikilink") writer.
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## Life
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Born to a prominent Anglo-Greek family of writers, poets and merchants
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living in [India](India "wikilink"), he spent the first years of his
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life there before his family moved to
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[Switzerland](Switzerland "wikilink") where he went to school and became
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fluent in English, French and Greek. During [World War
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II](World_War_II "wikilink"), he and his family took the last boat that
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was evacuating citizens from France after the Nazi invasion. He studied
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medicine at Oxford and joined the Communist Party of Britain, but left
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over their support for the [USSR](USSR "wikilink") and became a
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[Trotskyist](Trotskyism "wikilink").
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He married a working class French [university](university "wikilink")
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student in 1947 and dropped out of politics to pursue his medical
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studies and career, but rejoined in 1957, writing under the name of
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**Martin Grainger**, but was quickly exposed, and not wanting to lose
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his job as a neurologist, began writing under the name **Maurice
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Brinton**.for the group
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[Solidarity](Solidarity_Federation_\(UK\) "wikilink"). He also wrote the
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accepted criteria for brainstem death and the entry of death for
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, a masterpiece of historical and medical
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summary.
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He personally witnessed the Belgian General Strike in 1960, the May
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Events of 1968 in France and the Carnation Revolution in Portugal. He
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also befriended [Ken Weller](Ken_Weller "wikilink") and was described as
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an intelligent, logical and charismatic man. He loved travelling Asia
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and studied many tropical diseases and cultures of Asia, and later
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became a witness for legal cases involving complex neurological issues.
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He also translated the writings of [Cornelius
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Castoriadis](Cornelius_Castoriadis "wikilink") from Greek into
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English.\[1\]
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## Ideas
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## Works
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### Books
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- 1970: [The Bolsheviks and Workers'
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Control](The_Bolsheviks_and_Workers'_Control "wikilink")
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- 1970: [The Irrational in
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Politics](The_Irrational_in_Politics "wikilink")
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### Articles and Pamphlets
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- 1960: [Socialism
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Reaffirmed](Socialism_Reaffirmed_\(Pamphlet\) "wikilink")
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- 1961: [The Belgian General
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Strike](The_Belgian_General_Strike_\(Pamphlet\) "wikilink")
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- 1961: [Revolutionary
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Organization](Revolutionary_Organization_\(Pamphlet\) "wikilink")
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- 1961: [The Commune, Paris
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1871](The_Commune,_Paris_1871_\(Pamphlet\) "wikilink")
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- 1965: [The Balkanization of
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Utopia](The_Balkanization_of_Utopia_\(Pamphlet\) "wikilink")
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- 1965: [For Workers'
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Power](For_Workers'_Power_\(Pamphlet\) "wikilink")
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- 1967: [As We See It](As_We_See_It_\(Pamphlet\) "wikilink")
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- 1967: [Preface: The Kronstadt
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Commune](The_Kronstadt_Commune_\(Book\) "wikilink")
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- 1968: [France: Reform or
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Revolution](France:_Reform_or_Revolution_\(Pamphlet\) "wikilink")
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- 1968: [Paris: May 1968](Paris:_May_1968_\(Pamphlet\) "wikilink")
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- 1968: [Capitalism and
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Socialism](Capitalism_and_Socialism_\(Pamphlet\) "wikilink")
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- 1969: [Capitalism and Socialism: A
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Rejoinder](Capitalism_and_Socialism:_A_Rejoinder_\(Pamphlet\) "wikilink")
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- 1969: [France: The Theoretical
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Implications](France:_The_Theoretical_Implications_\(Pamphlet\) "wikilink")
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- 1969: [The Events in
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France](The_Events_in_France_\(Pamphlet\) "wikilink")
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- 1969: [A Question of
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Power](A_Question_of_Power_\(Pamphlet\) "wikilink")
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- 1972: [Review: What is Class
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Consciousness?](Review:_What_is_Class_Consciousness?_\(Pamphlet\) "wikilink")
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- 1972: [Review: Dialectical Materialism and
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Psychoanalysis](Review:_Dialectical_Materialism_and_Psychoanalysis_\(Pamphlet\) "wikilink")
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- 1972: [As We Don't See
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It](As_We_Don't_See_It_\(Pamphlet\) "wikilink")
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- 1974: [The Malaise on the
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Left](The_Malaise_on_the_Left_\(Pamphlet\) "wikilink")
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- 1975: [Factory Committees and the Dictatorship of the
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Proletariat](Factory_Committees_and_the_Dictatorship_of_the_Proletariat_\(Pamphlet\) "wikilink")
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1. [David Goodway](David_Goodway "wikilink") - [Obituary: Christopher
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Pallis - An irreverent critic of the Bolshevik
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revolution](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/24/guardianobituaries.paullewis) |