Ideologies / Council Communist / Otto Rühle
§ The minds · 1874–1943 · Germany · Theorist
Otto Rühle
The revolution is not a party matter
Against all party bureaucracy.
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The German council communist who broke with both the SPD and the Communist Party, arguing that 'the revolution is not a party affair' — only the self-organised class itself.
social
Progressive educator and child-liberation advocate.
economic
Common ownership through autonomous council organisation.
governance
Held that even revolutionary parties reproduce domination.
Notable for
- 'The Revolution Is Not a Party Affair'
- Council-communist organiser
- Anti-bureaucratic Marxism
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