They sought not to impose a kind of organization upon the workers' movement, but instead to uplift the form of 'councils' as spontaneous and self-emancipatory for the working class. Council Communist theory was derived from workers' experiences in the German Revolution of 1918, the early years of the Weimar Republic, and the study of the early council movements in Russia in 19. Council Communism emerged in Holland and Germany in the 1920's as an alternative to Bolshevik and Marxist-Leninist thought up to the Third International. The Council Communist Reader is a collection of selected writings from a few council communists. It is a question of the practical struggle against the apparatus of capitalist domination.' - Anton Pannekoek The realization of this principle can never occur through a theoretical discussion concerning the best means of execution. ' 'Workers' councils' does not designate a fixed form of organization, elaborated once and for all and for which all that remains is to perfect its details it concerns a principle, that of workers' self management of the enterprise and of production.

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