Council Communism

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The Abolition of the State: Anarchist & Marxist Perspectives
Price, Wayne
Book
2007
Both Anarchists and Marxists believe that it will be possible to do away with the state. But what do they mean by that? What is the state, after all? What institutions, if any, would be necessary ...
Brendel, Cajo - Writings - Index
Brendel, Cajo
Article
Writings of Cajo Brendel (1915-2007).
Council Communism
Mattick, Paul
Article
1939
There is no dearth of proposals as to how to revive the labour movement; however, the serious investigator cannot help noticing that all such proposals for a 'new beginning' are in reality but the res...
Council communism: Connexipedia Article
Article
The central argument of council communism, in contrast to those of social democracy and Leninist Communism, is that democratic workers' councils arising in the factories and municipalities are the nat...
Council Communism & The Critique of Bolshevism
Brendel, Cajo
Article
1999
Council Communists don't see Stalinism as a sort of 'counter-revolution' that deprived October of its fruits. Rather they see Stalinism just as a fruit of this revolution, one that opened the door for...
A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Bottomore, Tom
Book
1983
Gorter, Herman - Writings - Index
Gorter, Herman
Article
Writings of Herman Gorter (1864-1927).
Left-Wing, Anti-Bolshevik and Council Communism
Website
Index to the works of 'Left Communists' (a.k.a. 'Council Communists' or 'Anti-Bolshevik Communists') and other ultra-left Communist currents and the debates between Left Communists and the leaders of ...
Letter to Socialisme ou Barbarie
Pannekoek, Anton
Article
1953
Councils are not only the means by which workers will exercise power after the taking of social power by the workers; we consider them as also being the organisms by means of which the workers will co...
Pannekoek, Anton - Writings - Index
Pannekoek, Anton
Article
Writings of Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960).
The Unknown Dimension: European Marxism Since Lenin
Howard, Dick, Klare, Karl E.
Book
1972
The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Mar...

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