Cajo Brendel

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Carl Brendel (born October 26, 1915 in The Hague ; † June 25, 2007 ) was a Dutch theorist of councilor communism .

Life

His parents, Carolina Hinlópen, a music teacher, and Johan Brendel lived together as a free marriage, which is why his real name is Carel Johan Hinlópen. He changed his name to Cajo Brendel in 1943.

Brendel, who grew up in a petty-bourgeois family, sympathized with Trotskyism as a youth , but in 1934 he joined the council communist group of international communists . In the mid-1930s, Brendel began studying economics, but was unable to finish it due to an acute shortage of money.

After he had written for various left communist and syndicalist newspapers in the 1930s , he was drafted into the army in September 1939 and was taken prisoner by Germany in May 1940. He managed to escape and from December 1940 worked as a correspondent for a Dutch regional newspaper , the Volksblad voor Gelderland .

Brendel married Riek van der Meulen in May 1943. The two remained married until their death in 1985 and were parents of a total of four children. One of them died in early childhood.

In 1953 Brendel contacted the French group Socialisme ou barbarie . In this context he met Henri Simon , with whom he had a lifelong friendship.

After the Second World War he worked as a journalist in Utrecht . In 1948 he became an employee of the Nieuw Utrechts Dagblad. In 1952 he joined the Communist Bond Spartacus , where he worked with Anton Pannekoek . Brendel worked as a writer and editor for their magazine Spartacus. In 1964 this group split. Brendel and Theo Maassen were excluded. In 1965 Brendel was co-founder and co-editor of the magazine Daad en Gedachte , which appeared once a month, alongside Maassen . Until its dissolution in 1997, he also worked as an author for them.

In June 1970 Brendel was able to publish his work on Anton Pannekoek. Five years later, his main political work, Revolutie en contrarevolutie, appeared in Spanje , which has not yet been published in German.

In addition to his work as an author, Brendel also appeared at international congresses until the end of the 1990s. Many of his articles were published anonymously.

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SURNAME Brendel, Cajo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brendel, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch Marxist theorist
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 2007