Workers' Councils - Softcover

Anton Pannekoek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1902593561 ISBN 13: 9781902593562

Publisher: AK Press, 2002

Synopsis

Contemporaries across the spectrum of Left thought, from Antonio Negri to Noam Chomsky, are falling over each other to claim the mantle of Left Communism. Left Communism is the theory and practice of worker control and self-organization whose adherents provided the main opposition to the Bolsheviks. Rarely printed, often cited, Pannekoek’s Workers’ Councils is the Das Kapital of Left Communism. This updated edition includes a substantial introduction from Noam Chomsky, illuminating the continuing relevance of this classic text.

"An urgent message to the future— are we listening?—from the most brilliant theoretician of libertarian com-munism."—Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz

Anton Pannekoek was a Dutch worker, Socialist, and astronomer. He wrote Workers’ Councils amidst Nazi occupation of Holland.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert F. Barsky is Professor of English, French, American Studies, and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent (1997, 1998) and The Chomsky Effect: A Radical Works Beyond the Ivory Tower (2007, 2009), both published by the MIT Press. His other books include Constructing a Productive Other (John Benjamins 1994);Introduction à la théorie littéraire (PUQ 1997) and Arguing and Justifying (Ashgate 2001).

About this edition

• Publisher: AK Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1902593561
• ISBN 13: 9781902593562
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112
• Editor: Robert F. Barsky