Council communism

[BIXX]

Can anyone provide any good pieces to learn about it?

[Marshal of the People]

Can anyone provide any good pieces to learn about it?

Council communism is my favourite tendency.

here are some links:

http://www.marxists.org/subject/left-wing/index.htm

http://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/

http://libcom.org/thought/council-communism-an-introduction

[motion denied]

https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/index.htm

https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1939/council-communism.htm


If jstor is of any help: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/487654?uid=3737664&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21103289413327

[Marshal of the People]

All hail Lord Pannekoek!

[L.A.P.]

http://libcom.org/library/workers-councils-book-pannekoek





good council communist critiques of the Spanish revolution

http://libcom.org/history/critical-look-spanish-revolution-ricardo-fuego

http://libcom.org/history/critical-notes-text-spain-1936-exorcism-ghost-revolution-andr%C3%A9s-devesa-roi-ferreiro

[The Idler]

How is it different from syndicalism? How is it different from left communism?

[L.A.P.]

unlike left communists, councilists vehemently oppose political parties, theorize the bourgeois-democratic nature of the October Revolution, and reject the vanguard in favor of believing the whole of the proletariat will spontaneously insurrect in the wake of the majority gaining revolutionary consciousness.

as with syndicalism, a lot is historical. Factory organizations were set up in revolutionary Germany as alternatives to the traditional union-form. Chiefly, the factory organizations (or the "workers councils" that councilists want the workers to be organized into) were absent of the specialized bureaucratic-staff incorporated into syndicalist unions. Also, anarcho-syndicalism has historically tried to avoid overtly political struggles in favor of isolated workplace struggles, while council communists like Pannekoek IIRC are more favorable towards political strikes and such. Lastly, the co-operative economic system (trade union capitalism imo) envisioned by anarcho-syndicalists as the emancipation of the working class is in stark opposition to the common ownership Marxists advocate.