Anton Pannekoek (January 2, 1873 - April 28, 1960) on Anarchism and Bottom-Up Organization(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.)
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“Fighting for freedom is not letting your leaders think for you and decide, and following obediently behind them, or from time to time scolding them. Fighting for freedom is partaking to the full of one's capacity, thinking and deciding for oneself, taking all the responsibilities as a self-relying individual amid equal comrades. It is true that to think for oneself, to think out what is true and right, with a head dulled by fatigue, is the hardest, the most difficult task; it is much harder than to pay and to obey. But it is the only way to freedom. To be liberated by others, whose leadership is the essential part of the liberation, means the getting of new masters instead of the old ones.”
Source: "Workers Councils," by Anton Pannekoek, First published in English in the International Council Correspondence, Vol.II, No.5, April 1936. Vol.II, No.5, April 1936, Part 1.
"Workers Councils," by Anton Pannekoek, First published in English in the International Council Correspondence, Vol.II, No.5, April 1936.
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