Ideologies / Council Communist / Sylvia Pankhurst
§ The minds · 1882–1960 · United Kingdom · Activist
Sylvia Pankhurst
Suffrage and the soviets
Council communism, British style.
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SocialistMarket
Governance−70
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The suffragette-turned-left-communist whose East London federation pursued workers' soviets and who argued council democracy with Lenin himself.
social
Radical feminist, anti-fascist and anti-colonial progressive.
economic
Common ownership through workers' soviets, not Parliament.
governance
Left-communist who clashed with Lenin over parliamentary tactics.
Notable for
- Workers' Socialist Federation
- Left-communist of 'Left-Wing Communism'
- Anti-fascist organiser
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