Ideologies / Council Communist / Herman Gorter
§ The minds · 1864–1927 · Netherlands · Poet & theorist
Herman Gorter
Reply to Lenin
Council communism's manifesto.
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The Dutch poet whose 'Open Letter to Comrade Lenin' became council communism's founding polemic against the vanguard-party model imported from Russia.
social
Romantic-revolutionary progressive and celebrated poet.
economic
Common ownership through mass autonomous action.
governance
His 'Open Letter to Comrade Lenin' rejected vanguard tactics for the West.
Notable for
- 'Open Letter to Comrade Lenin'
- Council-communist theory
- Major Dutch poet
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