Council Communism: Difference between revisions

Council Communism, at its core, believes in the establishment of a dictatorship of the proletariat by means of a network of workers' councils. Council Communism rejects [[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy|social democratic]] methods like participation in parliaments and trade unions. Historically, council communists like Herman Gorter, Anton Pannekoek and the KAPD believed that the most determined form of organisation which groups together the most conscious and prepared proletarian fighters is the Party along with the idea that the communist party must have a thoroughly worked out programmatic basis and must be organised and disciplined in its entirety from below, as a unified will. However, some of the more recent councilists(like Ruhle and Mattick) would end up rejecting the party, believing it to be useless in the proletarian struggle and believing that the proletariat can do the revolution by itself without needing any forms of organisation other than the soviets.