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Council communism is a category for books that explore the socialist tradition centered on workers’ councils as the basis of political power and economic self-management, emerging chiefly in the German and Dutch movements after World War I. Works in this genre examine the theory and practice of direct workplace democracy, mass strikes, and proletarian self-organization, while critiquing parliamentary socialism, trade-union bureaucracies, and Leninist vanguardism as forms of top-down control. The category typically includes classic texts by figures such as Anton Pannekoek, Herman Gorter, Otto Rühle, Karl Korsch, and Paul Mattick; historical studies of the German Revolution, factory councils, and the Russian soviets; debates with Marxist and anarchist currents; and contemporary analyses of council-style organization, worker self-management, and horizontalist movements.

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