Can't find an organized view in your big loads of articles and books on interesting topics? Join the Left Communist Library, one of the largest and richest online libraries. With permission, you can add things yourself.
According to verifiable sources a group of council communists with an old KAPD tank from the German Revolution has conquered Novosibirsk. Many civilians greet the militants on the street.
Now Anton Pannekoek was stricken with polio and wore a device (for support) on his leg. He went limping on his way. As he left, Rosa Luxemburg got behind him and shoved him into the carpet, “so that he almost fell down the stairs.” - note from Kautsky
An incredibly important book on the history of the German Revolution has just been published in English by Brill. A deep study of the council movement that surpasses both reactionary and leninist/stalinist historiography and rightly admits a greater role to the council movement.
Now Anton Pannekoek was stricken with polio and wore a device (for support) on his leg. He went limping on his way. As he left, Rosa Luxemburg got behind him and shoved him into the carpet, “so that he almost fell down the stairs.” - note from Kautsky
“The extreme poverty of conscious organization and creativity in everyday life expresses the fundamental necessity for unconsciousness and mystification in an exploiting society, in a society of alienation.” - Guy Debord, 1961
When council communists lost their lives fighting proto-fascists, Radek made deals with them. When the council communists died in concentration camps, Molotov drank with Hitler. And still Stalinists have the audacity to call council communists class traitors.
The funny thing about this photo of Pannekoek is that here he is being pursued by the man on the left on behalf of the domestic security service in the Netherlands.
A book with a collection of Anton Pannekoek's important writings will be released soon. Pannekoek's unpublished manuscript "The workers way to freedom" is one of them.
Today, Pannekoek died in 1960. One of the most underrated Marxists, coming from the second international, who was - unrecognized - the forerunner of an unorthodox open Marxist critique which others did not get to until much later. He was ahead of his time on many fields.
"The Dutch council communists liked to strengthen their arguments at the meeting by picking up a chair and waving it threateningly, chair communists, they were." This is the original left-communist "chairman" meme.
In 1969, 2 council communists infiltrated a comedy theater about the Bavarian council republic as extras to protest the "falsification of history" about the Bavarian council republic. They were supported by students throwing smoke bombs and tomatoes.
“Yes: dictatorship . . . But this dictatorship must be the work of the class and not that of a leading minority in the name of the class.” - Rosa Luxemburg
The more I read Kautsky in the debate against Luxemburg and Pannekoek, the more I find out that Lenin's book against left-wing communism is nothing but a copy of Kautsky's arguments.
Novosibirsk is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and the Siberian Federal District in Russia. As of the 2021 Census, it had a population of 1,633,595
The three best introductions to council communism:
- Council Communism (Mattick)
- The Workers’ Councils: in the theory of the Dutch–German Communist Left (not last chapters)
- On Council Communism (Linden)
"A personal conversation with Kautsky was hardly instructive. His way of thinking was angular, dry, lacked acumen, was unpsychological, his value judgments schematic, his witticisms mundane. For these reasons, Kautsky was also a weak speaker." - Trotsky
I am happy to share – partly because of me – this standard work by Anton Pannekoek will be printed by the maoist printing house
@FLP_books
. Soon more on the website!
Do not forget the role of the well-known "anti-fascist" Dimitrov who gave Van der Lubbe to the Nazis with a straight face and spread conspiracy theories about him so that he himself would not get into trouble.
Viva o marxismo-leninismo-maoísmo pensamento Gonzalo!
Viva a Revolução Proletária Mundial!
A Guerra Popular vencerá, inevitavelmente!
Arte
@yungblackmaoist
According to verifiable sources a group of council communists with an old KAPD tank from the German Revolution has conquered Novosibirsk. Many civilians greet the militants on the street.
#OtD
10 Jan 1934 disabled anti-fascist construction worker, Marinus van der Lubbe, was executed by the Nazis for setting fire to the Reichstag. He'd hoped his act would inspire resistance to fascism; instead, Nazis used it as a pretext to repress dissent
Jan Appel thought it was strange that a bust was made of Lenin when he had a conversation with him. He asked why this was happening, Lenin replied "The people need it."
Gorterists were really another level, instead of raising money for food for the strikers like other communists they were raising money for guns and other weapons.
What many people don't know is that there were also council communist groups in Denmark. In 1930 Danes gathered around the newspaper Mod Strømmen (Against the Current). (1/3)
free palestine. free corsica. free friesland. free cornwall. free karelia. free transnistria. free tamil. free basuria. free südtirol. free galicia. free every and all nations experiencing genocide, colonisation, oppression in the name of capitalism and facing persecution.
Jan Appel thought it was strange that a bust was made of Lenin when he had a conversation with him. He asked why this was happening, Lenin replied "The people need it."
“For us there is no minimal and no maximal program; socialism is one and the same thing: this is the minimum we have to realize today…. the realization of socialism as the immediate task which guides every measure and every position that we take.” - Rosa Luxemburg
Latest news: militants are positioning themselves. In the meantime, there is a lot of talk with civilians because the group is not known. The town hall acts as an information point and Marxist literature is dispensed from it.
The "Spartakusbund" is not a party that wants rule over the working masses, or that wants to come to power either by or through the working masses. The "Spartakusbund" is only the most purposive part of the proletariat, pointing out its historical tasks (1/2)
- KPD program 1918