Adam Buick

Adam Lewis Buick (6 January 1944–) is a prominent London-based socialist.

Buick was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales and graduated from the University of Oxford. He joined the Socialist Party of Great Britain in 1962 and since then has been one of its most active members. He is a frequent public speaker for the Party, and as of 2007 is the all-time second-most prolific contributor to the Socialist Standard. Buick served as the Party's General Secretary from 1993 to 1995.

Buick's writings on socialist theory have been widely referenced and critiqued in the leftist press and in scholarly journals.

Selected bibliography

• Jerome, W. and Adam Buick. "Soviet State Capitalism? The History of an Idea". Survey: A Journal of Soviet and East European Studies, № 62, January 1967, pp. 58–71.
• Buick, Adam. "Proletarian Self-emancipation". Radical Philosophy № 7, Spring 1974.
• Buick, Adam. "Joseph Dietzgen". Radical Philosophy № 10, Spring 1975.
• Pannekoek, Anton. "The theory of the collapse of capitalism". Transl. Adam Buick. Capital and Class № 1, Spring 1977.
• Buick, Adam. "Bordigism". In Rubel, Maximilien and John Crump, eds., Non-market Socialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1987. ISBN 0333413008 (cased); ISBN 0333413016 (paperback).
• Buick, Adam and John Crump. State capitalism: The Wages System Under New Management". Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1986. ISBN 0333367758 (hardcover); ISBN 0333367766 (paperback).

References

• Socialist Standard, various issues, 1962–2007.
• "Socialism & The State – Why Buick is Wrong". Socialist Studies [then publishing as "The Socialist Party of Great Britain"]. October 1991. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)