Jan Appel

Content by or about Jan Appel (22 August 1890 – 4 May 1985) a German revolutionary who participated in the German Revolution of 1918. He became a prominent Left Communist activist and theorist. Pseudonyms include: Max Hempel, Jan Arndt, Jan Voß.

Techonology

Machine Slavery or Technology?

Article by Jan Appel where he critiques the production method and underlying forms of technology under capitalism. It also critiques the Russian…

Long live the World Revolution

The Compulsion for Revolution

This is a translation of an article by Jan Appel. Originally published as “Der Zwang zur Revolution” in Die Aktion (X), No. 35/36 on the 4th of…

Jan Appel

Jan Appel on the Unemployment Issue

Short presentation by Jan Appel on the Unemployment Issue at the 1921 Berlin Extraordinary Public Party Congress of the KAPD. This text also…

KAPD First Congress

Against National Bolshevism. Against Hamburg Tendency!

A collections of the interventions and opinions of various party members at the First Ordinary Party…

Jan Appel

Council communism or councilism? - The period of transition

Book review of Philippe Bourrinet “The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-68); ‘Neither Lenin nor…

Jan Appel - Communist Bulletin Group

A short biography of Jan Appel, a German council communist.

Council communism: political-economic transformation and initial revolutionary measures – Philippe Bourrinet

A brief introduction to the history and some important theoretical contributions of…

Speech At The Third Congress Of The Communist International — Max Hempel (Jan Appel)

Jan Appel's speech to the 1921 Congress of the Third International under the pseudonym Max Hempel.

Part 4: Discussion of Lenin's Report on the Tactics of the Russian Communist Party

Interventions by delegates of the KAPD at the Third Congress of the Communist International in 1921 in response to Lenin's report on the tactics of the Russian Communist Party

Part 1: Discussion about Radek's Report on the Tactics of the International

Interventions by members of the KAPD at the Third Congress of the Communist International in 1921 in reply to Karl Radek's presentation on the tactics the CI should employ.

Sailors in front of the prison in Wilhelmshaven

The Wilhelmshaven revolt, 1918-1919 - Ikarus

The Wilhelmshaven Revolt - a chapter of the revolutionary movement in the German navy, 1918-1919, by 'Ikarus' - real name Ernst Schneider…

Putilov Factory, Petrograd

Fundamental principles of communist production and distribution

Full text of Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution, Collective work of the…