Building Power to Change the World

The Political Thought of the German Council Movements
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-19-885662-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Muldoon, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Sozialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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).