246 Pages
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Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 1978: Communism aims at putting working people in charge of their lives. A multiplicity of Councils, rather than a big state bureaucracy is needed to empower working people and to focus control over society. Mattick develops a theory of a council communism through his survey of the history of the left in Germany and Russia. He challenges Bolshevik politics:... Read more
Introduction
1. Karl Kautsky: From Marx to Hitler
2. Luxemburg versus Lenin
3. The Lenin Legend 4. Bolshevism and Stalinism
5. Council Communism
6. Otto Rühle and the German Labour Movement
7. Spontaneity and Organisation
8. Karl Korsch: His Contribution to Revolutionary Marxism
9. Humanism and Socialism
10. Marxism and the New Physics
11. Monopoly Capital
12. Workers’ Capital
Biography
Paul Mattick is Professor Emeritus at Adelphi University in New York. He was previously the editor of the International Journal of Political Economy, and he is the author of Social Knowledge.
