Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Communist Party of Greece politicians, Greek Trotskyists, Cornelius Castoriadis, Nicolas Calas, Manolis Anagnostakis, Avraam Benaroya, Aris Velouchiotis, Michel Pablo, Yannis Tamtakos, Kostas Varnalis, Charilaos Florakis, Georgios Siantos, Aleka Papariga, Nikos Zachariadis, Yiannis Ritsos, Pandelis Pouliopoulos, Markos Vafiadis, Andreas Tsipas, Nikos Beloyannis, Moisis Michail Bourlas, Nikos Ploumpidis, Mimis Androulakis, Yannis Hotzeas, Liana Kanelli, Dimitrios Partsalidis, Alekos Alavanos, Antonis Vratsanos, Kostas Kappos, George Mavrikos, Ilios Yannakakis, Giannis Dragasakis, Kostas Kazakos, Diamanto Manolakou, Thanasis Pafilis, Giorgos Toussas, Dimitris Tsiogkas, Apostolos Grozos, Costas Droutsas. Excerpt: Cornelius Castoriadis (Greek: , March 11, 1922 - December 26, 1997) was a Greek philosopher, economist, psychoanalyst, author of The Imaginary Institution of Society, and co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group. Castoriadis was born in Constantinople and his family moved in 1922 to Athens. He developed an interest in politics after he came into contact with Marxist thought and philosophy at the age of 13. His first active involvement in politics occurred during the Metaxas Regime (1937), when he joined the Athenian Communist Youth (Kommounistiki Neolaia). In 1941 he joined the Communist Party (KKE), only to leave one year later in order to become an active Trotskyist. The latter action resulted in his persecution by both the Germans and the Communist Party. In 1944 he wrote his first essays on social science and Max Weber, which he published in a magazine named "Archive of Sociology and Ethics" (Archeion Koinoniologias kai Ithikis). During the December 1944 violent clashes between the communist-led ELAS and the Papandreou government, aided by British troops, Castoriadis heavily criticized the actions of...