Anton Pannekoek

Archive of texts and documents by and about Anton Pannekoek on libcom.org.

Lenin As Philosopher - Anton Pannekoek.

Lenin as philosopher - Anton Pannekoek

Pannekoek's classic work analyses Lenin's philosophical views as being determined by the historical circumstances they emerged from; the battle…

The Failure of the Working Class (1946)

Having been victimized by capitalism, the working class were deluded by state socialist parties German and Russian, who only engineered a return…

Destruction as a means of struggle - Anton Pannekoek

Prompted by the burning of the Reichstag in 1933 - by Marinus van der Lubbe, a council communist bricklayer and other possible accomplices -…

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The theory of the collapse of capitalism - Anton Pannekoek

Pannekoek applies his critique to the theories of Luxemburg and Grossman - and shows why capitalism…

Communist rally during the 1918 German revolution.

World revolution and communist tactics - Anton Pannekoek

Pannekoek surveys the possibilities and obstacles for communist revolution in 1920.

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State Capitalism and Dictatorship - Pannekoek

On the limits of state capitalism as a strategy for the ruling class.

The Personal Act - Pannekoek

Anton Pannekoek writes on the burning of the Reichstag by council communist Marinus Van Der Lubbe (and other possible accomplices) - and…

Charles Darwin and Karl Marx.

Marxism and Darwinism - Pannekoek

The relationships between Darwinism, Marxism, evolution and class struggle.

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Workers Councils (1936) - Anton Pannekoek

Revolutionary Workers Councils as organs of working class self-emancipation. This article was first published in English in the American journal…

France, 1968.

Eclipse and re-emergence of the communist movement - Gilles Dauvé and François Martin

A book by François Martin and "Jean Barrot" (aka Gilles Dauvé), influential since the 1970s among…