John Gerber. Anton Pannekoek and the Socialism of Workers’ Self-Emancipation, 1873-1960.

Biblioteca / 1980-1989

John Gerber. Anton Pannekoek and the Socialism of Workers’ Self-Emancipation, 1873-1960.

Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers – Amsterdam: International Institute of Social History, 1989.

xxv, 250 páginas.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter I

The Making of a Socialist: The Milieu of Pannekoek’s Marxism

The Historical Context: Society and Social Democracy in the Netherlands

Struggling with Ideas: Pannekoek’s Conversion to Marxism

Rank-and-File Militant: Pannekoek and the SOAP in Leiden

Chapter II

Mind and Reality: Pannekoek’s Methodology

Pannekoek and Dietzgen: The Dialectics of Distinction

Theory and Social Development: The Class Basis of Science

Social Knowledge of a New Kind: Pannekoek’s Conception of Historical Materialism

Chapter III

Dutch Left Marxism in Formation: The Nieuwe Tijd Left, 1899-1906

From Romanticism to Marxism: The Origins of the Nieuwe Tijd Group

‘First Life, Then Theory’: The Trade Union, Agrarian, and School Debates

Deepening of the Split: The Dutch Mass Strike Wave of 1903 and its Aftermath

Chapter IV

Bringing Socialist Insight to the Masses, 1906-1909

The Berlin Years: Theoretical and Propaganda Work for the SPD

Intransigent Marxism on the Offensive: The Tribunist Left

Chapter V

Consciousness and Workers’ Self Emancipation: Pannekoek’s Political Thought prior to 1910

Consciousness and Socio-Economic Reality: Pannekoek’s Theory of Ideological Hegemony

Organization and Ideological Development: Pannekoek’s Conception of Revolutionary Praxis

Moral Consciousness and Social Transformation: Pannekoek’s Conception of Proletarian Ethics

Chapter VI

Struggling Marxism in Practice, 1910-1914

Break with the Marxist Center: Pannekoek Against Kautsky

Militants Against the Apparatus: The Bremen Left

‘Sect or Party?’ The Dutch SOP

Chapter VII

Mass Action and Revolution: Pannekoek’s Political Thought, 1910-1914

Revolution and Class Transformation: Pannekoek’s Theory of Mass Action

Economics and Social Development: Pannekoek’s Theory of Imperialism

Class Struggle and Nation: Pannekoek and the National Question

Chapter VIII

War and Revolution, 1914-1919

War Against War: Pannekoek and the Zimmerwald left

From Sect to Party: The SDP and the New Internationalism

Militants Against the Current: The Bremen Left and the Formation of German Communism

The New Socialism of the Laboring Masses: Pannekoek’s Political Thought, 1914-1919

Chapter IX

The Left Communist Alternative, 1920-1926

West European Marxismon on the Offensive: The Amsterdam Burea

Working Class Organization of the New Type: The KAPD and the AAUD

Pannekoek Against Lenin: Left Communism and the Comintern

Between Deventer and Moscow: The CPH and the Comintern

From Movement to Sect: Left Communism in Decline

Chapter X

A New Workers’ Movement in Formation: International Council Communism, 1927-1945

From Left Communism to Council Communism: The Origins of the GIC and GCC

The Permanent Crisis: The Theoretical Development of Council Communism in the Inter-War Period

Chapter XI

The World of the Workers’ Councils: Pannekoek and the Theory of Council Communism

The Workers’ Way to Freedom: Rebellion and Council Organization

Organization and Production: The Council State

Ideology and Social Reality: Pannekoek’s Philosophical Critique of Leninism

Chapter XII

Revolution and Reality: The Council Ideal in the Post-War Period

‘Hope is Far Distant’: Pannekoek and the Dilemma of the Independent Left

Re-thinking Marx: Pannekoek and the Rciconstruction of Revolutionary Theory and Practice

Unfulfilled Promise: Pannekoek in Historical Perspective

Bibliography