The recent collapse of the Soviet Union made clear the weaknesses and deficiencies in Leninist theory and practice. In the period between the World Wars, however, an entirely different trend of socialist thought had briefly flowered in Europe, a trend which rejected the Leninist model of centralized party and state, and instead affirmed the democratic self-emancipation of the working class. This movement was "council communism". "Non-Leninist Marxism" presents a selection of the most influential writings from the council communists, including Hermann Gorter, Anton Pannekoek, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Otto Ruhl.

Non-Leninist Marxism: Writings on the Worker's Councils

Politics & Social Sciences

Pannekoek, Anton

Pankhurst, Sylvia

Gorter, Hermann

Politics & Government

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A critical examination of the relationship between Marxism and other social justice movements, including feminism, anti-racism, gay liberation, environmentalism, anarchism and Native activism. The capitalist social order is like a Hydra, a many-headed dragon. Try to cut off one head, and the others will kill you. The only way to kill the beast is to cut off all its heads at once. The social revolution must grow to encompass not merely the economic means of production, but the entire mode of social life, including its familial, sexual, racial, national, gender and authority roles. The tactics of the traditional Leninists are entirely unsuited for that task. Only a wider-ranging social movement can hope to defeat capitalist hegemony.

Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony: Marxism, Capitalism, and Their Relation to Sexism, Racism, Nationalism, and Authoritarianism

Flank Jr., Lenny

A critique of authoritarian Leninism from the viewpoint of "council communism". Social revolutionaries must reject the failed leninist model as being unsuited to the social conditions existing in the industrialized nations. It is clear that our revolutionary methods and organizations must be broad-based, mass-supported, and based on the decentralized self-organization of the producers. That is the essence of the Worker's Council.

Philosophy of Revolution: Towards a Non-Leninist Marxism

Flank, Lenny

A beginner's guide to Marxist economics, from the beginnings of capitalism within the feudalist system, to its modern incarnation as corporate monopoly. Also covers the rise and fall of the non-market Leninist economies.

Contradictions of Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

Business & Money

Economics

The Afghanistan War from the inside. Over 800 classified reports by the troops in the field, presenting the reality of how the war is being fought on the ground. Assassinations, demonstrations, ambushes, IEDs. The unvarnished truth about the insurgent war that we are not winning.

The Afghanistan Papers: A Selection of Leaked Us Military Field Reports from the Afghan War

History

Asia

The ABC of Communist Anarchism

Berkman, Alexander

A selection of writings from Friedrich Engels. Socialism, Utopian and Scientific; The Principles of Communism; The Part Played by Labour in the Transition From Ape to Man; Ludwig Feuerbach and the end of Classical German Philosophy; and The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State.

Essential Writings of Friedrich Engels: Socialism, Utopian and Scientific; The Principles of Communism; And Others

ENGELS, FRIEDRICH

The final report of the 1975 US Senate Church Committee, describing the decade-long effort by J Edgar Hoover and the FBI to discredit and "neutralize" the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Hoover considered the civil rights movement to be "Communist", and did everything in his power to destroy it.

The FBI, COINTELPRO, And Martin Luther King, Jr.: Final Report Of The Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect To Intelligence Activitie

Committee, Church

Americas

A collection of classic texts from the Pure Land school of Buddhism. The Pure Land sect, devoted to the Amida Buddha, is one of the most popular Buddhist schools in Japan. This volume contains the classic works "Principal Teachings of The True Sect of Pure Land", "Buddhist Psalms", and "The Praises of Amida".

In the Name of the Amida Buddha: Classic Writings from the Pure Land Sect of Buddhism

Religion & Spirituality

Kanai, Tada

Okusa, Yejitsu

Yamabe, S

Buddhism

An autobiography by General George Armstrong Custer, written a few years before he departed for the Montana campaign and died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Covers the period of Custer's life from the end of the Civil War to his campaign against the Sioux and Cheyenne, culminating in the Battle of the Washita in 1868.

My Life on the Plains: General George Custer's Firsthand Account of the Washita Campaign

Biographies & Memoirs

Custer, George Armstrong

Historical

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