The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900–68) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900–68) write by Philippe Bourrinet. This book was released on 2016-11-01. The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900–68) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Dutch-German Communist Left, represented by the German KAPD-AAUD, the Dutch KAPN and the Bulgarian Communist Workers Party, separated from the Comintern (1921) on questions like electoralism, trade-unionism, united fronts, the one-party state and anti-proletarian violence. It attracted the ire of Lenin, who wrote his Left Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder against the Linkskommunismus, while Herman Gorter wrote a famous response in his pamphlet Reply to Lenin. The present volume provides the most substantial history to date of this tendency in the twentieth-century Communist movement. It covers how the Communist left, with the KAPD-AAU, denounced 'party communism' and 'state capitalism' in Russia; how the German left survived after 1933 in the shape of the Dutch GIK and Paul Mattick’s councils movement in the USA; and also how the Dutch Communistenbond Spartacus continued to fight after 1942 for the world power of the workers councils, as theorised by Pannekoek in his book Workers’ Councils (1946).
Western Marxism and the Soviet Union
Western Marxism and the Soviet Union - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Western Marxism and the Soviet Union write by Marcel Van Der Linden. This book was released on 2007. Western Marxism and the Soviet Union available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If the Soviet Union did not have a socialist society, then how should its nature be understood? The present book presents the first comprehensive appraisal of the debates on this problem, which was so central to twentieth-century Marxism.
Debt and Guilt
Debt and Guilt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Debt and Guilt write by Elettra Stimilli. This book was released on 2018-12-27. Debt and Guilt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The issue of debt and how it affects our lives is becoming more and more urgent. The "Austerity" model has been the prevalent European economic policies of recent years led by the "German model". Elettra Stimilli draws upon contemporary philosophy, psychology and theology to argue that austerity is built on the idea that we somehow deserve to be punished and need to experience guilt in order to take full account of our economic sins. Following thinkers such as Max Weber, Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault, Debt and Guilt provides a startling examination of the relationship between contemporary politics and economics and how we structure our inner lives. The first English translation of Debito e Colpa, this book provokes new ways of thinking about how we experience both debt and guilt in contemporary society.
The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-1968)
The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-1968) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-1968) write by Philippe Bourrinet. This book was released on 2017-11-14. The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-1968) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The most substantial history to date of the famous 'ultra-left' tendency within the international Communist movement.
The Council Communist Reader
The Council Communist Reader - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Council Communist Reader write by Paul Mattick. This book was released on 2021-05-24. The Council Communist Reader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. " 'Workers' councils' does not designate a fixed form of organization, elaborated once and for all and for which all that remains is to perfect its details; it concerns a principle, that of workers' self management of the enterprise and of production. The realization of this principle can never occur through a theoretical discussion concerning the best means of execution. It is a question of the practical struggle against the apparatus of capitalist domination." - Anton Pannekoek The Council Communist Reader is a collection of selected writings from a few council communists. Council Communism emerged in Holland and Germany in the 1920's as an alternative to Bolshevik and Marxist-Leninist thought up to the Third International. Council Communist theory was derived from workers' experiences in the German Revolution of 1918, the early years of the Weimar Republic, and the study of the early council movements in Russia in 1905 and 1917. They sought not to impose a kind of organization upon the workers' movement, but instead to uplift the form of "councils" as spontaneous and self-emancipatory for the working class. This was a throughline for the council communists to connect back to Marx's understanding of proletarian revolution in maintaining "the emancipation of the working class is the task of the workers themselves." Council communism was not to be a new ideology for the working class, but to take a critique of state socialism back to the roots of self-emancipation towards theoretical coherence which can combat all forms that hinder emancipation and move this theoretical coherence into practice. From this, and their understanding revolutionary consciousness develops as a result of crisis, revolution is not a choice but a necessity. The works included in this book have been chosen to reflect the developments of Council Communism over decades; this is not an exhaustive, encyclopedic collection of all councilist texts, but a collection of key texts. This book in the Radical Reprint series from Pattern Books is made to be accessible and as close to manufacturing cost as possible.
