Karl Korsch

Paul Mattick

Anton Pannekoek

Gruppe Internationaler Kommunisten Hollands

Albert Flachmann

Der Zusammenbruch der staatskapitalistischen Gesellschaften Osteuropas enthüllt zugleich den Geburtsfehler der westeuropäischen Linken, ihre Abhängigkeit vom sozialistischen Schein der Staatsvergesellschaftung, die nun, da es ihr scheinbar wie Schuppen von den Augen fällt, der sozialen Revolution den Rücken kehrt und linksliberal verendet. Diese Neuveröffentlichung rätekommunistischer Schriften ruft in Erinnerung, daß es dazu immer eine Alternative gab. Inhalt: Diethard Behrens: Eine kommunistische Linke jenseits des Leninismus? (1987) Gruppe Internationaler Kommunisten Hollands: Thesen über den Bolschewismus (1934) Paul Mattick: Über Anton Pannekoek (1962) Anton Pannekoek: Lenin als Philosoph (1938) Karl Korsch: Zur Philosophie Lenins (1938) Albert Flachmann: Erinnerungen an Anton Pannekoek Paul Mattick: Der Leninismus und die Arbeiterbewegung des Westens (1970) Diethard Behrens u. Kornelia Haffner: Auf der Suche nach dem “wahren Sozialismus” (1990)

Marxistischer Antileninismus

Marxism and Philosophy is Karl Korschs masterwork. In it he argues for a reexamination of the relationship between Marxist theory and bourgeois philosophy, and insists on the centrality of the Hegelian dialectic and a commitment to revolutionary praxis. Although widely attacked in its time, Marxism and Philosophy has attained a place among the most important works of twentieth-century Marxist theory, and continues to merit critical reappraisal from scholars and activists today.

Marxism and Philosophy

Karl Marx

Douglas Kellner

Revolutionary Theory

A bracing, concise, and accessible overview of the entirety of Marx's thought, by a major figure of twentieth-century Western Marxism.

Fredric Jameson

André Gorz

Jean Baudrillard

Theodor W. Adorno

Slavoj Zizek

Max Horkheimer

Alain Badiou

Wilhelm Reich

Simon Critchley

Various

Ludwig Feuerbach

Maurice Godelier

Valentin Volosinov

Radical Thinkers

Gesamtausgabe: Krise des Marxismus : Schriften, 1928-1935

Schriften zur Theorie der Arbeiterbewegung 1920-1923

Marxismus und Philosophie

Karl Korsch; Revolutionary Theory

Herman Gorter

Otto Rühle

Franz Pfemert

" 'Workers' councils' does not designate a fixed form of organization, elaborated once and for all and for which all that remains is to perfect its details; it concerns a principle, that of workers' self management of the enterprise and of production. The realization of this principle can never occur through a theoretical discussion concerning the best means of execution. It is a question of the practical struggle against the apparatus of capitalist domination." - Anton Pannekoek The Council Communist Reader is a collection of selected writings from a few council communists. Council Communism emerged in Holland and Germany in the 1920's as an alternative to Bolshevik and Marxist-Leninist thought up to the Third International. Council Communist theory was derived from workers' experiences in the German Revolution of 1918, the early years of the Weimar Republic, and the study of the early council movements in Russia in 1905 and 1917. They sought not to impose a kind of organization upon the workers' movement, but instead to uplift the form of "councils" as spontaneous and self-emancipatory for the working class. This was a throughline for the council communists to connect back to Marx's understanding of proletarian revolution in maintaining "the emancipation of the working class is the task of the workers themselves." Council communism was not to be a new ideology for the working class, but to take a critique of state socialism back to the roots of self-emancipation towards theoretical coherence which can combat all forms that hinder emancipation and move this theoretical coherence into practice. From this, and their understanding revolutionary consciousness develops as a result of crisis, revolution is not a choice but a necessity. The works included in this book have been chosen to reflect the developments of Council Communism over decades; this is not an exhaustive, encyclopedic collection of all councilist texts, but a collection of key texts. This book in the Radical Reprint series from Pattern Books is made to be accessible and as close to manufacturing cost as possible.

The Council Communist Reader

In Marxism and Philosophy Korsch argues for a reexamination of the relationship between Marxist theory and bourgeois philosophy, and insists on the centrality of the Hegelian dialectic and a commitment to revolutionary praxis. Although widely attacked in its time, Marxism and Philosophy has attained a place among the most important works of twentieth-century Marxist theory, and continues to merit critical reappraisal from scholars and activists today.

Gesamtausgabe: Krise des Marxismus : Schriften 1928-1935

Marxismus a filosofie

Marxism and Philosophy is Karl Korsch's masterwork. In Marxism and Philosophy Korsch argues for a reexamination of the relationship between Marxist theory and bourgeois philosophy, and insists on the centrality of the Hegelian dialectic and a commitment to revolutionary praxis. Although widely attacked in its time, Marxism and Philosophy has attained a place among the most important works of twentieth-century Marxist theory, and continues to merit critical reappraisal from scholars and activists today.

These three essays by the independent German Marxist Karl Korsch offer expositions, often in polemical form, of basic Marxist ideas. Since they cover both sociology and economics, they are excellent guides for the student on the most introductory, though not the most elementary, level. The first essay, "Leading Principles of Marxism," takes up Marxism on the plane of sociology and deals with the relation of Marxism to Comte and positivism, and to bourgeois sociology in general. The second, his introduction to the 1932 German edition of Capital, consists of an assessment of the work in human thought and an important reader's guide to Volume I. The third, "Why I Am a Marxist," is a polemic against various distortions in Marxism and an affirmation of the revolutionary, as against the academic, character of Marxism.

Three Essays on Marxism

Karl Korsch

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