council communism
Workers Councils - Anton Pannekoek
Anton Pannekoek describes how workers councils have been and can be organs of self-organised working class power in struggle - and a means towards overthrowing capitalism and creating a classless society.
State capitalism and dictatorship (alternate translation)
On the limits of state capitalism as a strategy for the ruling class.
This article was apparently first published in Raete Korrespondenz. This translation was published unsigned in the American journal International Council Correspondence Vol. III No. 1 January 1937.
General Remarks on the Question of Organisation (1938)
"There are many who think of the proletarian revolution in terms of the former revolutions of the middle class, as a series of consecutive phases: first, conquest of government and instalment of a new government, then expropriation of the capitalist class by law, and then a new organisation of the process of production. But such events could lead only to some kind of state capitalism. As the proletariat rises to dominance it develops simultaneously its own organisation and the forms of the new economic order."
The Politics Of Gorter - Anton Pannekoek (1952)
Pannekoek writes in defence of the politics and practice of his late friend and comrade.
Lotta Continua Interview with Paul Mattick
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Interviewed in 1977 by Italian radicals, the late veteran council communist speaks on crisis, politics, organisation and revolution.
Paul Mattick Interview by J.J. Lebel
This interview was given in February 1975. It was never published. Initially it was aimed to be part of a radio programme on workers' councils which never went on the air. A French translation was added to the second French edition of Workers' Councils (Spartacus, November 1982). Reprinted from Vol. 4 "Workers Councils" -- Anton Pannekoek (ECHANGES), where it appeared as an appendix.
Otto Ruhle and the German Labour Movement - by Paul Mattick
Paul Mattick critically analyses Otto Rühle's role in the German Revolution.
Rosa Luxemburg in Retrospect - Paul Mattick
Mattick reconsiders the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, particularly her critique of Bolshevism and her economic theory.
It will soon be sixty years since the mercenaries of the German social-democratic leadership murdered Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. Although they are mentioned in the same breath, as they both symbolized the radical element within the German political revolution of 1918, Rosa Luxemburg's name carries greater weight because her theoretical work was of greater seminal power.
The New Capitalism and the Old Class Struggle - Paul Mattick
Mattick surveys the historical organisational forms of the old workers movement, and how a changing capitalism has either integrated them or made them redundant.
Luxemburg versus Lenin - Paul Mattick
A comparison of Leninist vanguardism with Luxemburg's more subtle conceptions of working class organisation.
