Council Communism

[Servia]

Can anyone direct me to some some literature, interviews, or information in general on Council Communism?

Also, who are some key thinkers in this tendency?

[The Idler]

Antonie Pannekoek is the main man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonie_Pannekoek
Wikipedia advises too
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_communism

[Per Levy]

Otto Rühle:

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

sadly not much of his work is translated and many good texts of his are not there.

Paul Mattick:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/index.htm

another one of the key councilists, very worth reading.

Karl Korsch:

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

as with rühle, much of korschs work isnt translated into english, but again very much worth reading anyway.

there are probally plenty more but this are the ones i know best and like the most.

pannekork was allready mentioned.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

There is a very detailed (I would say "great", but obviously I don't agree with it) pamphlet by the Dutch Group of Internationalists Communists available online, the Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution (https://www.marxists.org/subject/left-wing/gik/1930/index.htm).

There is also Gombin's 1978 work, titled simply "Council Communism" (https://www.marxists.org/subject/left-wing/1978/council-communism.htm).

[Illegalitarian]

I think Bordiga may have been but I'm not overly familiar with his work

[Art Vandelay]

I think Bordiga may have been but I'm not overly familiar with his work

No, Bordiga was certainly no council communist.

[Tim Cornelis]

Stalin was closer to being a council communist than Bordiga.

[Blake's Baby]

Bordiga certainly thought that the Council Communists were tainted with the same 'syndicalism' that he ascribed to Stalin.