Otto Rühle

Online archive of texts and documents by and about Karl Heinrich Otto Rühle (23 October 1874 – 24 June 1943), a German Marxist active in opposition to both the First and Second World Wars as well as a council communist theorist.

Otto Ruhle

Otto Ruhle

KAPD Report from Moscow

Report from the Congress of the Third International in Moscow by Otto Rühle of the Communist Workers Party of Germany (KAPD).

Moscow And Us - Otto Rühle

Brief notes on the Russian revolution, the third International and their relationship with the German proletariat by council communist Otto Ruhle.

Which Side To Take? Otto Rühle

Otto Ruhle on which side socialists should support during World War II.

Reichstag

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.

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.

Workers from the FAUD

From the bourgeois to the proletarian revolution - Otto Ruhle

Written in 1924, this pamphlet charts the development of the Russian and German revolutions, and…

Ausflug des 'Syndikalistischen Frauenbundes Groß-Berlin'

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…

Report from Moscow, 3rd International congress, 1920 - Otto Ruhle

The struggle against fascism begins with the struggle against Bolshevism - Otto Ruhle

Left communist pamphlet from 1939 that points the finger at Lenin and the Bolsheviks for crippling…

Otto Rühle

Otto Ruhle and the German labour movement - Paul Mattick

Paul Mattick critically analyses Otto Rühle's role in the German Revolution.