The Revolutionary Contribution of Paul Mattick
Submitted by Internationalis... on Sep 15 2020 19:19
Review of Marxism in a Lost Century: A Biography of Paul Mattick by Garry Roth (Haymarket Books/Historical Materialism Series).
The KAPD and the proletarian movement – Jacques Camatte
A 1971 essay on the KAPD, its positive features (its break with the ideology and practice of social democracy) and its shortcomings (“ideology of the producers”), with discussions of, among other things: Lenin’s Infantile Disorder; the KAPD’s relations with the Third International; National Bolshevism; the AAU and AAUE; the KAPD as vanguard party; the counterrevolution, Stalinism and fascism; the crucial importance of Germany for the proletarian revolution; the KAPD’s influence on the communist currents of the 1960s; and the next, “human revolution” entailing the “abolition of the proletariat” (communism: “the mode of production in which the goal of production is man himself”).
Jan Appel - Communist Bulletin Group
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Jul 28 2015 03:16
A short biography of Jan Appel, a German council communist.
Left-wing splinter parties in the Weimar Republic
A 1974 dissertation on various left-wing radical groups in Weimar Republic era Germany.
AAUD/AAUD-E reader
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Aug 21 2012 09:01
A reader I compiled from various texts online of the AAUD/AAUD-E.
The workers councils as organisational foundation of communist production - GIK
A summary of the basic theoretical foundations of the work 'Fundamental principles of communist production and distribution' by the Dutch German left group GIK.
Paul Mattick and Council Communism - Claudio Pozzoli
Notes by Claudio Pozzoli on Paul Mattick, council communism and in particular its differences with left communism.
Art as a weapon: Franz Seiwert and the Cologne progressives - Martyn Everett
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 8 2010 18:19
An account of Franz Seiwert and the 'Cologne Progressives', a group or circle of artists who followed and participated in the radical currents around the German council communist organisations AAU and especially the AAU-E. The 'Cologne Progressives' may be the most radical group of artists ever.
The councilist movement in Germany (1914-1935): A history of the AAUD-E tendency
Submitted by Spassmaschine on Mar 11 2010 04:51
Article tracing the origins and theoretical development of the 'unitary' current of the General Workers' Union of Germany.
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