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Author : John Petrov Plamenatz
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Communism
ISBN : UCAL:B4916178
Author : John Thompson MacCurdy
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Communism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Rosa Luxemburg
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : History
ISBN : 0472060570
A controversial Marxist, Luxemburg here opposes the Bolsheviks' quest for power
Author : Paul Mattick,Otto Rühle,Karl Korsch,Herman Gorter,Franz Pfemert,Anton Pannekoek
Publisher : Pattern Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9785143124172
" '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.
Author : Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789047420804
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.
Author : Martin McCauley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1979-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349043736
Author : Philippe Bourrinet
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004325937
The Dutch-German Communist Left separated from the Comintern (1921) on questions like electoralism, trade-unionism, united fronts, the one-party state and anti-proletarian violence. The present volume provides the most substantial history to date of this tendency in the twentieth-century Communist movement.
Author : Teodor Shanin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583678084
Explores Marx’s attitude to “developing” societies. Includes translations of Marx’s notes from the 1880s, among the most important finds of the last century.
Author : Ben Fowkes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1984-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349173730
Author : David W. Lovell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1984-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521261883
This study is a contribution to the debate, begun just after the October Revolution, concerning the relationship between Marx's project and Soviet society. It focuses, however, only on the political aspects of the matter: to what extent was early Soviet authoritarianism the necessary outcome of Marx's works? Since Lenin's practice and theory largely determined and justified the early political character of the Soviet state, we may ask whether Lenin was implementing Marx's project or a project of his own design. Lenin, influenced by debates within Social Democracy and by the experience of the Russian revolutionary tradition, used a one-sided interpretation of Marx's work to build and defend a 'transition' which was fundamentally authoritarian. Marx was not causally responsible for the theoretical foundation of Soviet authoritarianism.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Communism
ISBN : MINN:30000007042421
Author : Paul Hollander
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300144202
The unexpected collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 signaled the demise of a political and economic system that was widely perceived as durable, the preeminent rival to that of the United States. Less conspicuous than the momentous political transformations were the altered beliefs, aspirations, and illusions of the individuals who had maintained and led that system. In this original interpretation the eminent sociologist Paul Hollander focuses on the human aspects of the failure of Soviet communism. He examines how members of the Soviet political elite, leaders in communist Czechoslovakia and Hungary, high-ranking officials in agencies of control and coercion, and distinguished defectors and exiles experienced the erosion of ideals that undermined the political system they had once believed in.Hollander analyzes an array of autobiographical and biographical writings, journalistic accounts, and scholarly interpretations of the unraveling of Soviet communism. The Soviet Union fell apart not merely because of severe economic shortcomings, Hollander argues, but because of the double impact of the conflict between official ideals and practical realities and an eroding sense of legitimacy in the highest echelons. In his conclusion, the author considers how Marxist theory both shaped and undermined the system.
Author : Anna Holian
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472117802
In May of 1945, there were more than eight million “displaced persons” (or DPs) in Germany—recently liberated foreign workers, concentration camp prisoners, and prisoners of war from all of Nazi-occupied Europe, as well as eastern Europeans who had fled west before the advancing Red Army. Although most of them quickly returned home, it soon became clear that large numbers of eastern European DPs could or would not do so. Focusing on Bavaria, in the heart of the American occupation zone, Between National Socialism and Soviet Communism examines the cultural and political worlds that four groups of displaced persons—Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Jewish—created in Germany during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The volume investigates the development of refugee communities and how divergent interpretations of National Socialism and Soviet Communism defined these displaced groups. Combining German and eastern European history, Anna Holian draws on a rich array of sources in cultural and political history and engages the broader literature on displacement in the fields of anthropology, sociology, political theory, and cultural studies. Her book will interest students and scholars of German, eastern European, and Jewish history; migration and refugees; and human rights.
Author : Paul Mattick, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351715584
This title was first published in 1978: Communism aims at putting working people in charge of their lives. A multiplicity of Councils, rather than a big state bureaucracy is needed to empower working people and to focus control over society. Mattick develops a theory of a council communism through his survey of the history of the left in Germany and Russia. He challenges Bolshevik politics: especially their perspectives on questions of Party and Class, and the role of Trade Unions. Mattick argues that a??The revolutions which succeeded, first of all, in Russia and China, were not proletarian revolutions in the Marxist sense, leading to the a??association of free and equal producersa??, but state-capitalist revolutions, which were objectively unable to issue into socialism. Marxism served here as a mere ideology to justify the rise of modified capitalist systems, which were no longer determined by market competition but controlled by way of the authoritarian state. Based on the peasantry, but designed with accelerated industrialisation to create an industrial proletariat, they were ready to abolish the traditional bourgeoisie but not capital as a social relationship. This type of capitalism had not been foreseen by Marx and the early Marxists, even though they advocated the capture of state-power to overthrow the bourgeoisie a?? but only in order to abolish the state itself.a??
Author : Peter W. Sperlich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313013577
Sperlich examines the ideological foundations of the socialist regime of the former German Democratic Republic. He provides a detailed analysis of the nature of the GDR's legitimating ideology and of the reasons why the ideology ultimately failed to legitimate the regime. The study uses primary source documents extensively as well as the little existing secondary literature. This is part of Sperlich's larger project dealing with the government, society, economy, political participation, and administration of the law and the system of courts of the GDR. This definitive treatment of the GDR provides the background essential to an understanding of all communist systems of the twentieth century. As such, it is vital reading for scholars, students, and other researchers seeking to understand the rise and ultimate collapse of communist systems and, in particular, the decline of the German Democratic Republic.