Otto Ruhle
German left communist, staunch opponent of Bolshevism and participant in the 1918 German revolution.
Speech in the Reichstag - Otto Rühle
Otto Rühle's speech to the Reichstag, rejecting the proposed shift to parliamentary democracy and calling for social revolution.
25th October 1918
The psyche of the proletarian child - Otto Rühle
Otto Rühle briefly looks at the focus on self-activity of various proletarian youth groups during the post-WWI revolutionary period in Germany.
Proletarian youth challenged the principle of authority for the first time in June 1919 when a number of young workers abandoned Free Socialist Youth in order not to oppose from within an authoritarian organization (which was an appendage of the parties) but to adopt a new position of their own.
From the Bourgeois to the Proletarian Revolution - Otto Ruhle
Written in 1924, this pamphlet charts the development of the Russian and German revolutions, and attempts to point forward from the failure of these two major events, analysing the role of the parties and the trade unions in their respective failures.
This online version taken from http://www.marxists.org
From the Bourgeois to the Proletarian Revolution
1 The Bourgeois Revolutions
An Introduction to Left Communism in Germany from 1914 to 1923
On the Origins and Early Years of Working Class Revolutionary Politics:
An Introduction to 'Left Communism' in Germany from 1914 to 1923
DG, 1994
Introduction and Overview
Report from Moscow, 3rd International congress, 1920 - Otto Ruhle
In 1920 the newly formed KAPD sent a delegation (Franz Jung and Jan Appel) to Moscow to negotiate with the Executive of the III. International and participate at its second congress. As nothing clear was heard from the delegation a second team was sent - Otto Rühle and August Merges.
The Fight Against Fascism Begins With the Fight Against Bolshevism
Otto Ruhle
The Fight Against Fascism Begins With the Fight Against Bolshevism (1939)
Left-communist pamphlet that points the finger at Lenin and the bolsheviks for crippling the international workers' movement with authoritarian tactics and for developing a totalitarian and capitalist system of rule in the USSR.
Otto Ruhle and the German Labour Movement - by Paul Mattick
Paul Mattick critically analyses Otto Rühle's role in the German Revolution.
The Revolution Is Not A Party Affair - Otto Rühle
Otto Rühle. "Parliamentarism appeared with the domination of the bourgeoisie. Political parties appeared with parliament."
In parliaments the bourgeois epoch found the historical arena of its first contentions with the crown and nobility. It organised itself politically and gave legislation a form corresponding to the needs of capitalism. But capitalism is not something homogeneous. The various strata and interest groups within the bourgeoisie each developed demands with differing natures.
