Council Communism

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Council Communism, also called Autch-German Left Communism[2], or simply Councilism[3], is a particular strain of left communism that emphasizes the role of worker's councils in organizing both the revolution itself and as a foundation of post-capitalist society. This direct proletarian control over production and distribution (Where the councils take democratic control over the economy) is seen by Council Communists as the true character of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Beliefs

A diagram of a proposed socialist economic and political system based on workers' councils
A diagram of a proposed socialist economic and political system based on workers' councils

Council communists differ widely on the specifics, but they all agree that, generally, decisions should be made via council democracy.

Council Communism, at its core, believes in the establishment of a dictatorship of the proletariat by means of a network of workers' council. Council Communism rejects Leninist organizational methods, such as vanguardism and democratic centralism. Despite this, not all council communists reject utilizing a party all together, as some believe in a party serving a minor role in the revolution[4]. Council Communism also rejects reformist methods and working within trade unions[5].

Most council communists also view the Bolshevik revolution as a bourgeois, not proletarian, revolution, and saw the Soviet Union as a State Capitalist project, rather than a File:Soc.png Socialist one, or one moving towards Socialism[4][5][6][7].

Council Communists/Dutch-German Left Communists differ from Italian Left Communists on the idea of the party. This can be seen in Pannekoek's Party and Class[8] and Bordiga's work with the same name[9]. The Dutch-Germans emphasise on autonomous organisations for the working class, in contrast, the Italians uphold the role of the party in leading the working class.

Personality

Council Communism, like the name, implies really likes councils and will usually insist other leftists to get into a Council together before deciding anything.

How to Draw

Flag of Council Communism
  1. Draw a ball with eyes
  2. Make it red
  3. In the middle draw a black circle with a red star in it
  4. Around the circle draw 9 black bars forming a circle.

You're done

Color Name HEX RGB
Red #d40100 212, 1, 0
Black #202020 32, 32, 32

Relationships

Friends

Frenemies

  • Anarcho-Communism - The old anarchist doctrine is simply too narrow to be of value.
  • Anarcho-Syndicalism - Unlike other ideologies, I won't confuse you for ancom. But his ideas are better, sorry not sorry... Also, Paul Mattick worked with you in the USA.
  • Syndicalism - Unions distract from true class consciousness, brother.

Enemies

  • Liberalism - Your democracy is only a tyranny of the minority!
  • Social Democracy - You killed Rosa.
  • National Socialism - Cope harder, you can't unburn the Reichstag.
  • Centrist Marxism - Do you Kautskyites know how much of an opportunist you people are?
  • Marxism–Leninism - You are merely a natural conclusion of Blanquism.
  • Leninism - The struggle against fascism begins with the struggle against Bolshevism.
  • The intellectuals - Social organization does not depend on qualities of the intellect of a minority. What intellectuals bring along to social organization is only the haughty prejudices of the capitalist class!
  • National Communism - No to National-Communism!
  • Futurism - I like being sane, thank you very much.

Further Information

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  1. ↑ https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch06.htm#s3
  2. ↑ https://libcom.org/files/dutchleft.pdf
  3. ↑ https://marx200.org/en/marxismus-denkt-ein-zwei-viele-marx/councilism-1920s
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://libcom.org/library/what-council-communism
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kool, Frits (1970). Die Linke gegen die Parteiherrschaft. Olten, Switzerland: Walter-Verlag.
  6. ↑ Shipway, Mark (1987). "Council Communism". In Rubel, Maximilien; Crump, John (eds.). Non-Market Socialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 104–126.
  7. ↑ van der Linden, Marcel (2004). "On Council Communism". Historical Materialism. 12 (4): 27–50.
  8. ↑ https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1936/party-class.htm
  9. ↑ https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1921/party-class.htm



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