| The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-68): 'Neither Lenin Nor Trotsky Nor Stalin!' - 'All Workers Must Think for Themselves!' Contributor(s): Bourrinet, Philippe (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004269770 ISBN-13: 9789004269774 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $262.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - History | Revolutionary - Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity |
| Series: Historical Materialism Book |
| Physical Information: 1.6" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (2.45 lbs) 704 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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). |