Concept
Council communism
Overview
Council communism or councilism is a current of left-communist thought that emerged in the 1920s. Inspired by the November Revolution, council communism was opposed to state socialism and advocated workers' councils and council democracy. Councilism is also opposed to Leninism and Stalinism. It was strongest in Germany and the Netherlands during the 1920s.
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Related ideas
- Vladimir Lenin
- French Revolution
- Anarchism
- Marxists Internet Archive
- Guy Debord
- Karl Marx
- Leon Trotsky
- Leninism
- Netherlands
- Russian Revolution
- Stalinism
- Left communism
- Cornelius Castoriadis
- Workers' council
- Surplus value
- Protests of 1968
- György Lukács
- Bolsheviks
- Trotskyism
- Autonomism
Opposing perspectives
- Weimar Republic
- German revolution of 1918–1919
- Left communism
- Definition of anarchism and libertarianism
Place in the tradition
Part of Communism.