James Muldoon

Building Power to Change the World (eBook, ePUB)

The Political Thought of the German Council Movements

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The German council movements arose through mass strikes and soldier mutinies towards the end of the First World War. They brought down the German monarchy, founded several short-lived council republics, and dramatically transformed European politics. Building Power to Change the World reconstructs how participants in the German council movements struggled for a democratic socialist society. It examines their attempts to democratize politics, the economy, and society through building powerful worker-led organisations and cultivating workers' political agency. Drawing from the practices of the council movements and the writings of theorists such as Rosa Luxemburg, Anton Pannekoek and Karl Kautsky, Building Power to Change the World returns to their radical vision of a self-determining society and their political program of democratization and socialization. It presents a powerful argument for renewed attention to the political theories of this historical period and for their ongoing relevance for democratic politics today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192598554
• Artikelnr.: 60544969

Autorenporträt

James Muldoon is a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Exeter. He is the editor of Council Democracy: Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics (Routledge, 2018), The German Revolution and Political Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and Trumping the Mainstream: The Conquest of Mainstream Democratic Politics by Far-Right Populism (Routledge, 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Between Social Democracy and Council Dictatorship: The Council Movements in Historical Perspective
2: Freedom as Collective Self-Determination
3: Building Workers' Power
4: Socialist Republicanism
5: Socialist Civic Virtues
Conclusion: After the Councils