Mattick and Council Communism
in Miserable Times:
Critique Between Defeat and Crisis

2021

A few accounts of the emergence of the tendency

• Pozzoli, "Paul Mattick and Council Communism"
• Bonacchi, "The Council Communists Between the New Deal and Fascism"
• Baum, "The Frankfurt School and Council Communism"
• Canne-Meijer, "Origins of the Movement for Workers' Councils in Germany"
• Mattick, "Council Communism"

New theory, new practice

• Living Marxism, "Against the Stream"
• Canne-Meijer, "The Rise of a New Labor Movement"

Against and beyond the old movements

• Korsch, "Marxism and the Present Task of the Proletarian Class Struggle"
• Wagner, "Theses on Bolshevism"
• Appel, "Marxism and State Communism"
• Mattick, "Karl Kautsky: From Marx to Hitler"
• Rühle, "The Struggle Against Fascism Begins With the Struggle Against Bolshevism"

The critique of organization

• Pannekoek, "Party and Working Class"
• Mattick, "Pannekoek's 'Party and Working Class'"
• Pannekoek, "General Remarks on the Question of Organisation"
• Moss, "On the Impotence of Revolutionary Groups"
• Mattick, "Spontaneity and Organisation"

From depression to fascist war

• Korsch, "Planning New Depressions"
• Living Marxism, "The Future of Unemployment"
• Mattick, "The Great Depression and the New Deal"
• Langerhans, "The Next World Crisis, the Second World War, and the World Revolution"
• Adorno, "Theses on Need"
• Living Marxism, "The Jitterbugs"
• Living Marxism, "The War is Permanent:" Part One Part Two
• Coffinet, "What Destroyed Democracy?: An Analysis of Capitalist Technology"
• Adorno, "Novissimum Organum"
• Horkheimer, "The Authoritarian State"
• Mattick, "How New is the 'New Order' of Fascism?"
• Rühle, "Which Side to Take?"

Mattick's critical theory vs. postwar society

• Mattick, "Nationalism and Socialism"
• Mattick, "The Economics of Cybernation"
• Mattick, critical introduction to the GIK's Fundamental Principles
• Mattick, Critique of Marcuse
• Mattick, "Capitalism and Ecology"
• Mattick, "The Crisis of the Mixed Economy"
• Mattick, "The Destruction of Money"
• Mattick, "Authority and Democracy in the United States"
• Mattick, "The New Capitalism and the Old Class Struggle"
• Mattick, interview with Lotta Continua
• Mattick, Marxism: Last Refuge of the Bourgeoisie?
• Marramao, "Theory of Crisis and the Problem of Constitution"

   

  
  
  
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