Adam Lewis Buick is a prominent London

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-based socialist.

Buick was born in Newport, Monmouthshire

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, Wales

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 and graduated from the University of Oxford

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. He joined the Socialist Party of Great Britain

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 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

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. 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
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  and John Crump, eds., Non-market Socialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1987. ISBN 0-333-41300-8 (cased); ISBN 0-333-41301-6 (paperback).
• Buick, Adam and John Crump. State Capitalism: The Wages System Under New Management. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1986. ISBN 0-333-36775-8 (hardcover); ISBN 0-333-36776-6 (paperback).