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Wild Socialism
Workers Councils in Revolutionary Berlin, 1918-21
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2012
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Wild Socialism examines the rise, development, and decline of revolutionary councils of industrial workers in Berlin at the end of the First World War. This popular movement spread throughout Germany, and was without precedent in either the theory or practice of the Social Democratic party and the trade unions allied to it.
These workers councils were most highly developed in Berlin, within its particular industrial, political, and cultural milieu. The Berlin Shop Stewards group provided a hard core of militant revolutionaries within the movement, many of whose adherents were more moderate or ambiguous in their views. Externally, the councilists faced a hostile Social Democratic-trade union bureaucracy who characterized council rule as “wilde Sozialismus,” a reconstituted and repressive state power, and a revolutionary rival in the rise of German Bolshevism. This work considers the experience of the Berlin councils as alternative institutions outside of traditional union, party, and governmental structures.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-5903-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-5904-8
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
100
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Preface No access
Chapter 1 Introduction No access Pages 1 - 2
Chapter 2 Berlin No access Pages 3 - 6
Chapter 3 The Urban Proletariat No access Pages 7 - 10
Chapter 4 German Social Democracy No access Pages 11 - 20
Chapter 5 The Trade Unions No access Pages 21 - 30
Chapter 6 Wartime No access Pages 31 - 36
Chapter 7 The Workers Councils No access Pages 37 - 42
Chapter 8 Revolution No access Pages 43 - 52
Chapter 9 1919 No access Pages 53 - 64
Chapter 10 1920 No access Pages 65 - 68
Chapter 11 Council Communism No access Pages 69 - 74
