Workers' Councils: The Libertarian Socialist Philosophy of Workers' Self-Rule in Governing Local Regions

by Anton Pannekoek

Book Overview

Anton Pannekoek discusses the viability of workers' councils as an effective means of administrating a socialist society, as contrasted to the centralized doctrines of state communism or state capitalism. Conceived as an alternative way to establish and sustain socialism, the workers councils have so far never been successfully established at a national scale. Part of the problem was disagreements among revolutionaries about their size and responsibilities;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0359046495
• ISBN13: 9780359046492
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"