Council Communism Archives

Christoph Fringeli May 1, 2020July 8, 2024 0 Comments Council Communism, Karl Liebknecht, Revolution 1918, Revolution 1919, Rosa Luxemburg, Vétomat

Revolution and Counterrevolution in Germany 1919

In January 1919 two important figures of the early German communist movement were murdered in Berlin: Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. This was in the middle of an attempt to turn the revolution that had forced the Kaiser to abdicate in November, 1918 into a fully socialist one. This attempt, often called the Spartacist Uprising, was defeated, as were other attempts in other parts of Germany to set up council republics and workers’ democracy.

2016 Book Reviews Datacide 15

Christoph Fringeli November 3, 2016January 9, 2025 0 Comments Arkadij Maslow, August Thalheimer, Communism, Council Communism, Entschiedene Linke, Franz Pfemfert, Hugo Urbahns, KAPD, Karl Korsch, KPD, KPO, Leninbund, Leon Trotsky, Marcel Bois, Ruth Fischer, Stalinism, Trotskyism, Ultra-Left, Werner Scholem

Marcel Bois: Kommunisten gegen Hitler und Stalin – Die linke Opposition der KPD in der Weimarer Republik – Eine Gesamtdarstellung (Book Review)

Book Review of Marcel Bois: Kommunisten gegen Hitler und Stalin – Die linke Opposition der KPD in der Weimarer Republik – Eine Gesamtdarstellung (Book Review), a comprehensive overall presentation of the history and sociology of the left opposition of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in the 1920s and early 1930s.

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