academic accounts of workers councils

[Matty_UK]

I'm currently working on an essay for university analysing Capitalist power in liberal democracies. One structural interpretation says that workers consent to capitalism because only a consciousness for short term struggles can develop. I don't want to accept this in my essay, and it's clearly not true judging by the existence of more radical worker's movements, such as early USSR, Turin(Italy), Bavaria(Germany), Clydeside(Scotland), the Spanish civil war and recently in Argentina. But I need some proper books about this to reference so I can talk about them in my essays, anyone have any suggestions?

[Panda Tse Tung]

Actually all of the mentioned workers-revolts we're created thanks to a vanguard (whether that is in the form of a party or something else). So it is quite a correct thesis.

Besides, there are many more ways the bourgeoisie retains power besides the lack of class-consciousness amongst the working class. This lack of class-consciousness has a reason...
They control the media, most of the party's, the un-democratic European Union (which creates most of the important economic laws for all of it's members-states), etc... etc...

[Bilan]

Look up the book 'Workers Councils'.
The authors name I can't remember right now. But it's a great reference.

[More Fire for the People]

Cornelius Castordias.

[which doctor]

Originally posted by Proper Tea is [email protected] 29, 2007 08:56 pm
Look up the book 'Workers Councils'.
The authors name I can't remember right now. But it's a great reference.
anton pannekoek

subversion of politics has some stuff too

[Morpheus]

The Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution by Robert Alexander
The Soviets by Oscar Anweiler
Horizontalism by Marina Sitrin

[catch]

Matty:

Hungary '56 - Andy Anderson >> http://libcom.org/library/hungary-56-andy-anderson
Portugal, the impossible revolution - Phil Mailer >> http://libcom.org/library/portugal-impossi...ion-phil-mailer (http://libcom.org/library/portugal-impossible-revolution-phil-mailer)

These are both 'proper books' but also free online.