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1 online resource |
| Series |
Historical Materialism Book Series ; volume 125 |
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Historical materialism book series ; volume 125
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 From Tribunism to Communism (1900 -- 18) -- 1. Origins and Formation of the ̀Tribunist' Current (1900 -- 14) -- 2. Pannekoek and ̀Dutch' Marxism in the Second International -- 3. Dutch Tribunist Current and the First World-War (1914 -- 18) -- pt. 2 Dutch Communist Left and the World-Revolution (1919 -- 27) -- 4. Dutch Left in the Comintern (1919 -- 20) -- 5. Gorter, the KAPD and the Foundation of the Communist Workers' International (1921 -- 7) -- pt. 3 GIC from 1927 to 1940 -- Introduction to Part 3: The Group of International Communists: From Left-Communism to Council-Communism -- 6. Birth of the GIC (1927 -- 33) -- 7. Towards a New Workers' Movement? The Record of Council-Communism (1933 -- 5) -- 8. Towards State-Capitalism: Fascism, Anti-Fascism, Democracy, Stalinism, Popular Fronts and the Ìnevitable War' (1933 -- 9) -- 9. Dutch Internationalist Communists and the Events in Spain (1936 -- 7) -- pt. 4 Council-Communism during and after the War (1939 -- 68) -- 10. From the ̀Marx-Lenin-Luxemburg Front' to the Communistenbond Spartacus (1940 -- 42) -- 11. Communistenbond Spartacus and the Council-Communist Current (1942 -- 68) |
| Summary |
The Dutch-German Communist Left, represented by the German KAPD-AAUD, the Dutch KAPN and the Bulgarian Communist Workers Party, separated from the Comintern (1921) on questions like electoralism, trade-unionism, united fronts, the one-party state and anti-proletarian violence. It attracted the ire of Lenin, who wrote his Left Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder against the Linkskommunismus, while Herman Gorter wrote a famous response in his pamphlet Reply to Lenin . The present volume provides the most substantial history to date of this tendency in the twentieth-century Communist movement. It covers how the Communist left, with the KAPD-AAU, denounced 'party communism' and 'state capitalism' in Russia; how the German left survived after 1933 in the shape of the Dutch GIK and Paul Mattick's councils movement in the USA; and also how the Dutch Communistenbond Spartacus continued to fight after 1942 for the world power of the workers councils, as theorised by Pannekoek in his book Workers' Councils (1946) |
| Notes |
"This work is a revised and English translation from the Italian edition, entitled Alle origini del comunismo dei consigli. Storia della sinistra marxista olandese, published by Graphos publishers in Genoa in 1995." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Communism -- Netherlands
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Communism
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Netherlands
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016053719 |
| ISBN |
9789004325937 |
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900432593X |
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