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The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-1968)

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The most substantial history to date of the famous ‘ultra-left’ tendency within the international Communist movement.
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The Dutch-German Communist Left, represented by the German KAPD-AAUD, the Dutch KAPN, and the Bulgarian Communist Workers Party, separated from the Communist International in 1921, and famously attracted the ire of Lenin, who wrote his Left Wing Communism in response. Drawing on a wide breadth of first hand material, this volume examines the history, ideas, and legacy of this tendency.
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Price: $60.00
Pages: 639
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Series: Historical Materialism
Publication Date: 17 April 2018
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781608468218
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Political ideologies and movements, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions, Social classes, General and world history, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions

"Given that it was the target of Lenin’s Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder, it has taken surprisingly long for a comprehensive study of the Left Communist breakaway from the Third International to emerge in English [...] Bourrinet’s book shows just how relevant the issues with which Left Communism grappled so relentlessly remain in our time."
—Michael Keaney, Capital & Class

Philippe Bourrinet, Ph.D. (1988), Université Paris-Sorbonne, is an independent researcher in social history. He has published monographs, translations and articles on Left Communism in Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia, Russia and social movements (Hungary 1956), including Ante Ciliga 1898-1992, Nazionalismo e comunismo in Jugoslavia (Graphos, 1996).
Acknowledgements ... ix
Illustrations ... xi

Introduction ... 1

Part 1: From Tribunism to Communism (1900–18)

1 Origins and Formation of the ‘Tribunist’ Current (1900–14) ... 11
2 Pannekoek and ‘Dutch’ Marxism in the Second International ... 82
3 The Dutch Tribunist Current and the First World-War (1914–18) ... 132

Part 2: The Dutch Communist Left and the World-Revolution (1919–27)

4 The Dutch Left in the Comintern (1919–20) ... 177
5 Gorter, the kapd and the Foundation of the Communist Workers’ International (1921–7) ... 226

Part 3: The gic from 1927 to 1940

Introduction to Part 3: The Group of International Communists: From Left-Communism to Council-Communism ... 277
6 The Birth of the gic (1927–33) ... 292
7 Towards a New Workers’ Movement? The Record of Council-Communism (1933–5) ... 327
8 Towards State-Capitalism: Fascism, Anti-Fascism, Democracy, Stalinism, Popular Fronts and the ‘Inevitable War’ (1933–9) ... 380
9 The Dutch Internationalist Communists and the Events in Spain (1936–7) ... 407

Part 4: Council-Communism during and after the War (1939–68)

10 From the ‘Marx-Lenin-Luxemburg Front’ to the Communistenbond Spartacus (1940–42) ... 431
11 The Communistenbond Spartacus and the Council-Communist Current (1942–68) ... 456

Conclusion ... 517

Works Cited ... 533
Further Reading ... 550
Addresses of Archival Centres ... 614
Acronyms ... 615
Index ... 622