I have finished editing together various texts from marxist humanists into one text. You can find a link to it on my linktree in my bio as well as in the replies to this tweet. Depending on the reception to this i may make more readers for other heterodox marxist traditions.
Fun fact. Council Theory had traction among the Palestinian Fedayeen of the DFLP. This was due to the initiatives by Council Communists Lafif Lakhdar and Hakima Barrada and the Situationist Mustapha Khayati who were involved in DFLP's education school for its cadres and Fedayeen.
While under capitalism, inactivity takes the form of leisure (aka a time to recover from work), the abolition of the division between labor and leisure would make inactivity a wealth in its own right again
communism is post-industrial abundance, the redefinition of wealth not as an accumulation of commodities but as the free flourishing of our potentialities
Nakamura Tsuyoshi. Japanese New Left Theorist. A founder of the Japanese New Left organization "Socialist Workers' League" [Sharōdō] and a theorist of Council Communism [Hyogi-kai Kyōsan Shugi], Tsuyoshi dedicated himself to the pursuit of a council revolution in post-war Japan.
“Generalized self-management contains the abolition of wage-labor; the abolition of wage-labor contains generalized self-management.” — Louis Michaelson
Where social production has broken the fetters of the capital relation and has lost the appearance of a separate realm.
"The Commune represents the only implementation of a revolutionary urbanism to date — attacking on the spot the petrified signs of the dominant organization of life, understanding social space in political terms, refusing to accept the innocence of any monument. "
Remembered this post and i'm honestly quite impressed at how great it was at summarizing in just a few words everything wrong with white american anarchists
Almost everybody on here is a Leftcom for the sake of being a contrarian, they act like they are the next debater. Now that they've exhausted all their attacks on the so-called leftists, they've begun attacking and insulting each other. Even making "memes" with PFPs as an insult.
On this day in 1943, the Council Communist Alexander Schwab passed away in a prison in Zwickau after years of suffering from constant torture and pneumonia. A KAPD foreman during the early 1920s, Schwab was also the main leader of the Council Com resistance group Rote Kämpfer.
Marxism has never been oriented towards Utopia except in this place... WELCOME TO NETHERLANDS
Geistige Revolution. Ahh, that's the Utopian Theory of Ernst Bloch. That's the Council Communism of Gorter and Pannekoek and others
That's very much the tradition that we're a part of.
An intriguing thing that I came about is that the German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters had created his very own hypothetical party named "Kaiserliche Anna Blume Partei" and gave it the acronym KAPD. The reason for this was his sympathy with original KAPD but also reluctance to join it.