Marxism & council communism: The foundation for revolutionary theory for modern society PDF
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[From the introduction:]
This book is meant to serve several purposes, First of all, it has been a profoundly personal project, the culmination of four years of thinking about the prospects for a total overturning of American (indeed, World) society as it now exists and the construction of a system of social relations based on the most fundamental equality and meaningfulness imaginable. During this period, I have engaged in various forms of activity and sought to find in various bodies of thought some ideas which would help me both to understand what was happening in the world and what I could do about it. The ideas presented in this book are those which I have found most helpful towards this end.
Thus, I have attempted to synthesize and present them in an understandable fashion. This is the second purpose of the book -- to make available to readers a great wealth of ideas which might otherwise go unnoticed. This is particularly true of the third section concerning council communism. Because these ideas did not develop within the mainstream of the international marxist movement such as it has been, they have gone unknown or been systematically misrepresented to those who might, like me, find them useful. It is with these potential comrades in mind that this book has been written.
This brings me to the third and most monumental purpose of this book -- to encourage its readers to begin to think critically for themselves, to question what is offered to them on a platter dogmatically -- and to investigate the entire "ultra-left" tradition and to determine for themselves what it has to offer.
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