Cleansing Conspiratorial Revolutionary Flame

Internet activity isn't really my forte, but I think you've made the right call.

I'll see what I can do about that

And as for the YouTube tags...you only put the end bit. For instance, if the video is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEZCYJ5veds, then you put only nEZCYJ5veds between the tags. It's silly that they don't make it clear...

*Cleanin' up*

All better!

Oh right sorry, I don't think I was clear enough -- within the communist left, the German/Dutch current (Pannekoek, Gorter etc.) is often referred as one key tradition along with the Italian left around Bordiga and the like. Luxemburg was certainly a German socialist (although she was originally from Poland), but she was not part of the Dutch-German left (i.e., council communism), of which the KAPD was a prominent element. Anyway, doesn't matter

Luxemburg wasn't a council communist dude, she died in 1919, and the KAPD was founded in April of the next year

urm yeah, well that's just, like, your opinion man

It was the contention of the council communists that revolutionaries should not seek to impose any kind of theory onto the workers' movement. The "workers' council" is fundamentally the result of the independent activity of workers in the struggle against capital. I don't think council communists are really concerned with concocting a new ideology in total isolation from any kind of class struggle. The history of the German/Dutch left is notoriously marked by a definite fight against bolshevism. You cannot reconcile the irreconcilable, which is why I think your ideas need work (and why they do not come across particularly clearly).

For example, in food production, you have the sovkhoz (state farm) model only, applied to industrial farming, vertical farming, aquaculture, etc. In certain aspects of retail, you have a tight cartel of cooperatives planning their distributions together. Some regions can trade labour credits and regular money with one another, depending on the degree of transition.

Oh right, I'm pretty sure the councils communists were decidedly opposed to any kind of vanguard party. (I did not understand your second comment on my user page, by the way.) Where did you get this theory from, anyway?