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Revival: Anti-Bolshevik Communism (1978) (Hardcover)
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Revival: Anti-Bolshevik Communism (1978) (Hardcover)
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This title was first published in 1978: Communism aims at putting
working people in charge of their lives. A multiplicity of
Councils, rather than a big state bureaucracy is needed to empower
working people and to focus control over society. Mattick develops
a theory of a council communism through his survey of the history
of the left in Germany and Russia. He challenges Bolshevik
politics: especially their perspectives on questions of Party and
Class, and the role of Trade Unions. Mattick argues that a??The
revolutions which succeeded, first of all, in Russia and China,
were not proletarian revolutions in the Marxist sense, leading to
the a??association of free and equal producersa??, but
state-capitalist revolutions, which were objectively unable to
issue into socialism. Marxism served here as a mere ideology to
justify the rise of modified capitalist systems, which were no
longer determined by market competition but controlled by way of
the authoritarian state. Based on the peasantry, but designed with
accelerated industrialisation to create an industrial proletariat,
they were ready to abolish the traditional bourgeoisie but not
capital as a social relationship. This type of capitalism had not
been foreseen by Marx and the early Marxists, even though they
advocated the capture of state-power to overthrow the bourgeoisie
a?? but only in order to abolish the state itself.a??
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