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The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-68): 'Neither Lenin Nor Trotsky Nor Stalin!' - 'All Workers Must Think for Themselves!'

The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-68): 'Neither Lenin Nor Trotsky Nor Stalin!' - 'All Workers Must Think for Themselves!'

Bourrinet, Philippe

Hardcover

General World HistoryPoverty & Social WorkSocial Movements

ISBN10: 9004269770
ISBN13: 9789004269774
Publisher: Brill
Published: Dec 8 2016
Pages: 642
Weight: 2.45
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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).

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