| Workers' Councils: The Libertarian Socialist Philosophy of Workers' Self-Rule in Governing Local Regions (Hardcover) Contributor(s): Pannekoek, Anton (Author) |
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ISBN: 0359046487 ISBN-13: 9780359046485 Publisher: Lulu.com OUR PRICE: $31.34 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - History - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations |
| Dewey: 331.883 |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.91 lbs) 180 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Anton Pannekoek discusses the viability of workers' councils as an effective means of administrating a socialist society, as contrasted to the centralized doctrines of state communism or state capitalism. Conceived as an alternative way to establish and sustain socialism, the workers councils have so far never been successfully established at a national scale. Part of the problem was disagreements among revolutionaries about their size and responsibilities; while Lenin supported the notion during the revolutionary period, the councils were phased out in favor of a centralized state, rather than diffused through the strata of society. Pannekoek draws on history for his ideas, noting the deficiencies of previous revolutions and the major objectives a future revolution should hold. The various tasks a state of worker's councils must accomplish, and the enemies that must be overcome - notably fascists, bourgeois elements and big business - are listed. |