Ideologies / Council Communist / Anton Pannekoek
§ The minds · 1873–1960 · Netherlands · Theorist & astronomer
Anton Pannekoek
All power to the councils
Communism without the party-state.
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The Dutch astronomer-Marxist who became the leading theorist of council communism — workers governing production directly through their own councils, against party and state alike.
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Rationalist progressive and noted astronomer.
economic
Common ownership run directly by federated workers' councils.
governance
Rejected both parliament and the vanguard party — self-rule from below.
Notable for
- Theorist of workers' councils
- 'Workers' Councils'
- Critic of Leninist vanguardism
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