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Workers' Councils
Contemporaries across the spectrum of Left thought, from Antonio Negri to Noam Chomsky, are falling over each other to claim the mantle of Left Communism. Left Communism is the theory and practice of worker control and self-organization whose adherents provided the main opposition to the Bolsheviks. Rarely printed, often cited, Pannekoek’s Workers’ Councils is the Das Kapi...more
Paperback, 112 pages
Published
November 1st 2002
by AK Press
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Pannekoek's proposed model of libertarian communism rejects both state-run communism and trade unions. State socialism might appear to be more appealing than capitalism because it is supposed to be "a ruling class of humane reformers instead of profit-hungry capitalists" (32). Workers are no more in charge of production than they were under capitalism; they have simply changed masters. We can see in the historic example of Russia that even after the Communist Revolution, the wor...more
Pannekoek's proposed model of libertarian communism rejects both state-run communism and trade unions. State socialism might appear to be more appealing than capitalism because it is supposed to be "a ruling class of humane reformers instead of profit-hungry capitalists" (32). Workers are no more in charge of production than they were under capitalism; they have simply changed masters. We can see in the historic example of Russia that even after the Communist Revolution, the wor...more
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Finally picked up a copy of this while perusing Red Emma's.
An amazingly uplifting and intensive look at workers' control of the means of production from a left-socialist/anarcho-syndicalist perspective. (ie. no bosses, no masters; worker control, direct democracy, consensus.) I highly recommend this book if you hate your job and/or are wondering why you labor, for whom, and for what.
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