Lost or obscured? How V. I. Lenin, Joseph Schumpeter, and Hannah Arendt misunderstood the council movement.

From: Polity | Date: April 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

The council movement arose in the disorder and suffering that marked the end of World War I to wrestle with the discredited remnants of pre-war states, crippled armies, and an industrial order that had become more dictatorial as production was harnessed to total war. This spontaneous movement of radical democratic ambitions helped achieve whatever measure of democracy Germany and Austria enjoyed between the wars. In the contemporary Anglo-American political theory canon, the council movement has only one great admirer, Hannah Arendt, who referred to it as part of the ...

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