Anton Pannekoek (January 2, 1873 - April 28, 1960) on Individual and Community(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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“Separated from mass action, the act of an individual who thinks he can accomplish great things on his own is useless. But as part of a mass movement, it's of the greatest importance. The class in struggle isn't a regiment of identical puppets marching in step and accomplishing great things through the blind force of its own movement. It is on the contrary a mass of multiple personalities, pushed forward by the same will, supporting itself, exhorting itself, giving itself courage.”
Source: "Individual Acts," by Anton Pannekoek, 1933; Published: Unsigned in "Persdienst van de Groep van Internationale Communisten", 1933, no. 7, at the same time as the article Destruction As A Means Of Struggle. This translation was published in the American ICC journal Internationalism, No. 20, Summer 1979.
"Individual Acts," by Anton Pannekoek, 1933; Published: Unsigned in "Persdienst van de Groep van Internationale Communisten", 1933, no. 7, at the same time as the article Destruction As A Means Of Struggle. This translation was published in the American ICC journal Internationalism, No. 20, Summer 1979.
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