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- Communism aims at putting working people in charge of their lives.
- Author(s): Paul Mattick
- 248 Pages
- Political Science, Political Ideologies
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Communism aims at putting working people in charge of their lives. A multiplicity of Councils, rather than a big state bureaucracy is needed to empower working people and to focus control over society. Mattick develops a theory of a council communism through his survey of the history of the left in Germany and Russia. He challenges Bolshevik politics: especially their perspectives on questions of Party and Class, and the role of Trade Unions. Mattick argues that a The revolutions which succeeded, first of all, in Russia and China, were not proletarian revolutions in the Marxist sense, leading to the a association of free and equal producersa, but state-capitalist revolutions, which were objectively unable to issue into socialism. Marxism served here as a mere ideology to justify the rise of modified capitalist systems, which were no longer determined by market competition but controlled by way of the authoritarian state. Based on the peasantry, but designed with accelerated industrialisation to create an industrial proletariat, they were ready to abolish the traditional bourgeoisie but not capital as a social relationship.This type of capitalism had not been foreseen by Marx and the early Marxists, even though they advocated the capture of state-power to overthrow the bourgeoisie a but only in order to abolish the state itself.aDimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .52 Inches (D)
Weight: .64 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 248
Genre: Political Science
Sub-Genre: Political Ideologies
Publisher: Merlin Press
Theme: Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
Format: Paperback
Author: Paul Mattick
Language: English
Street Date: January 1, 1978
TCIN: 90277807
UPC: 9780850362237
Item Number (DPCI): 247-11-9731
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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