Anton Pannekoek (January 2, 1873 - April 28, 1960) on Workers and Self-Management(published by RevoltSource) |
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Dutch Astronomer, Philosopher, Marxist Theorist, and Socialist Revolutionary
: A Dutch astronomer, philosopher, Marxist theorist, and socialist revolutionary. He was one of the main theorists of council communism (Dutch: radencommunisme). Pannekoek studied mathematics and physics in Leiden from 1891. Even before he went to college he was interested in astronomy and studied the Milky Way and variability of Polaris. He published his first article, On the Necessity of Further Researches on the Milky Way, as a student. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
Quote #13 on Economic Struggle Quotes >> Workers and Self-Management
“Capitalism, indeed, cannot be annihilated by a change in the commanding persons; but only by the abolition of commanding. The real freedom of the workers consists in their direct mastery over the means of production. The essence of the future free world community is not that the working masses get enough food, but they direct their work themselves, collectively. For the real content of their life is their productive work; the fundamental change is not a change in the passive realm of consumption, but in the active realm of production.”
Source: "The Failure of the Working Class," by Anton Pannekoek, 1946, Transcribed: by David Walters/Greg Adargo, December, 2001; Source: Kurasje Council Communist Archives.
"The Failure of the Working Class," by Anton Pannekoek, 1946, Transcribed: by David Walters/Greg Adargo, December, 2001; Source: Kurasje Council Communist Archives.
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