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January 2022

Volledige transcriptie van G.I.C. Radencommunisme 1938-1940, (externe link naar aaap.be)
G.I.C. Werklozenbeweging en klassenstrijd 1930 (externe link naar aaap.be)

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

Anibal, Rolando Astarita sobre la URSS. Doctrinarismo categorial, distorsiones y arrogancias varias para tapar abundantes contradicciones y falacias.
Nildo Viana, Blocos Sociais e Luta de Classes.
Anibal, Marxismo y seudo marxismo en Nildo Viana. Una necesaria crítica.
Fredo Corvo, O Mito Fatal da Revolução Burguesa na Rússia.

December 2021

Brochure De Vlam/Spartacusbond, Portugal, zelfstandige arbeidersstrijd en de 'vertegenwoordigers van de arbeidersklasse', ±1975/1976. Omslag, inh.opg., voorwoord, hfst. 1, hfst. 2, hfst. 3, hfst. 4.

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

Mateus Alves, A Concepção de Partido Político em Otto Rühle in Marxismo e Autogestão Ano 08, num. 11, 2021.1.
Grupo de Comunistas Internacionales de Holanda (GIKH) - Principios fundamentales de una producción y distribución comunista (1930)
Milovan Djilas e A Nova Classe – Cajo Brendel (Spartacus, 1957).
Milovan Djilas y la nueva clase - Cajo Brendel (Spartacus, 1957).
Anton Pannekoek, Karl Korsch, Paul Mattick Crítica del bolchevismo.
Wagner, Egger, Hamann, Was tun in Zeiten der Schwäche? in Cosmonaut, 16-10-2021

Corvo, Bolschewismus als Alternative zu selbstgewählte Ohnmacht? - Ein paar Gedanken zu „Was tun in Zeiten der Schwäche?“ - in Arbeiterstimmen, 2-11-2021. Nederlands, English, Espagnol.
Klopotek, Ungenau und Dogmatisch in Cosmonaut, 20-11-2021

November 2021

GIC, Trotsky and the Council Communism (1938). Warning: this version contains some flaws of translation, and misses a fragment. A new version is in the making (1-11-2021).

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

Translation and critique of above article by GIC on Trotsky.
Paul Mattick, O Que É Comunismo? (1934).
Paul Mattick, ¿Qué es el comunismo? (1934).
GIC, Los principios fundamentales de la producción y distribución comunista. Grupo de Comunistas Internacionalistas. Traducción a español de la segunda edición (1935).
Gabriel Teles, Marxismo crítico-revolucionario: 60 años después de la muerte de Karl Korsch.
Gabriel Teles, O marxismo crítico-revolucionário: 60 anos da morte de Karl Korsch.
Fredo Corvo, Comunismo de Conselhos ou Conselhismo?
David Adam, La crítica de Marx al proyecto socialista del “dinero-trabajo” y el mito del proudhonismo de los comunistas de consejos.
Tommy Lawson, Una nueva biografía del comunista de izquierdas Gavril Miasnikov y del Grupo Obrero del Partido Comunista Ruso.

October 2021

Cajo Brendel, Milovan Djilas en De Nieuwe Klasse (Spartacusbond, 1958).

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

Grupo Comunista Internacionalista (GIC), Os Princípios Fundamentais da Produção e Distribuição Comunista – Parte 1.

Tommy Lawson, The Most Intransigent of Bolsheviks: Gavril Miasnikov, the Workers Group and the Degeneration of the Russian Revolution. A new biography of Left-Communist Gavril Miasnikov and the Workers Group of the Russian Communist Party.
GIC, Estamos construyendo la estructura de la nueva sociedad en la cáscara de la antigua. Artículo final de la serie "La diferencia de puntos de vista de la IWW y el Movimiento de los Consejos en Alemania".
Nelke, 1921-2021: 100 Jahre parteifeindlicher Kommunismus. Neue Broschüre von Soziale Befreiung.
Hermann Lueer (Hrsg.), GIK, Versetzt die ganze Staatsmaschinerie ins Museum der Altertümer, neben das Spinnrad und die bronzene Axt!
- GIK, Trotzki und der Rätekommunismus (1938)
- GIK, Im Land der großen Lüge (1940, Auszüge aus der Rezension des Buches von Anton Ciliga)
- Ciliga, Sowjetische Bourgeoisie (1938, Auszug aus dem Buch von Anton Ciliga)
- GIK, Staatskapitalismus und Kommunismus (1936, Auszüge)
- GIK [Anton Pannekoek], Partei und Arbeiterklasse (1936)
- GIK, Die kommunistische Gesellschaft (1938, Auszüge)
- GIK, Anarcho-Syndikalismus und der Rätekommunismus (1937, Auszüge)
- GIK, Abschaffung der Lohnarbeit! (1935, Auszüge aus Grundprinzipien ...)
- GIK, Kommunismus und geistige Freiheit (1939)

Hermann Lueer (Ed.), GIC, Put the whole state machinery into the museum of antiquities, next to the spinning wheel and the bronze ax!
- GIC, Trotsky and the Council Communism (1938)
- GIC, In the Land of the great Lie (1940, abstracts from its review of the book by Anton Ciliga)
- Ciliga, Soviet Bourgeoisie (1938, abstract of the book by Anton Ciliga)
- GIC, State Capitalism and Communism (1936, abstracts)
- GIC [Anton Pannekoek], Party and Working-Class (1936)
- GIC, The Communist Society (1938, abstracts)
- GIC, Anarcho-Syndicalism and the Council Communism (1937, abstracts)
- GIC, Abolition of Wage Labor! (1935, abstracts from Fundamental Principles ...)
- GIC, Communism and Intellectual Freedom (1939)

September 2021

GIC, Communisme en geestelijke vrijheid (Radencommunisme, 1939). Translation from Dutch into English and German in progress.
GIC, Trotski en het radencommunisme (Radencommunisme, 1938). Translation from Dutch into English and German in progress.
Willy Huhn, Lênin como um utópico (1948), external link to Crítica Desapiedada
Willy Huhn, Sobre a doutrina do partido revolucionário (Parte 1) (1961), external link to Crítica Desapiedada

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

Launch of the CWO's new book Russia: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1905-1924 - A View from the Communist Left

August 2021

Hempel/Appel - GIC, Marxisme et communisme d’État. Le dépérissement de l’État', 1927-1932
Fundraising for translation from German into English of Axel Weipert, "The second revolution. The council movement of Berlin 1919-1920".

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

New book, Movimiento del capital
João Aguiar, Uma ou duas classes dos gestores? (in 4 parts)
F.D., Hors jeu. "Pourquoi les groupes politiques surgis de mai 68, et qui ont constitué la Gauche Internationaliste, en ont-ils été réduits au sectarisme de chapelle, sans exercer une quelconque influence sur le questionnement provoqué par la postmodernité".

July 2021

Historical documents

Translation into Spanish and edition in the inter-rev forum of Herman Gorter's text “The Communist Workers' International" (1923).

Presentation of four new books

Group of International Communists From each according to his ability , to each according to his needs! 2021 Hermann Lueer (Editor/Translator). Including Preface by Lueer.
Gruppe Internationaler Kommunisten, Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen! Hermann Lueer (Hrsg.) 2021. Enthält Lueers Vorwort.
Gruppe Internationaler Kommunisten (Holland) : P.I.K. : Pressedienst der Internationalen Kommunisten-Holland, 1928-1933. – Transkribiert und herausgegeben von Hans-Peter Jacobitz und Thomas Königshofen; Mitarbeit von der Association Archives Antonie Pannekoek. E nthält Vorwort der Herausgeber und Erwiderung.
The Council Communist Reader, May 2021. Paperback ISBN: 978-8-8431-1458-0. Hardcover ISBN: 978-5-1431-2417-2. A Radical Reprint. Pattern Books. W ith an introduction from Paul Mattick Jr., followed by comments by F.C. and Anibal.

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

Chine: Ne jamais oublier le massacre de la place Tiananmen! publié le 25 juin 2021 par Luc Thibaut. introduction de Pantopolis.
Chuang, May 12, 2021, Involution: Wildcat on China’s 2020. Critical remarks by Chuang on an article by Wildcat.
O G.I.C. e a economia do período de transição – Fredo Corvo.
The Indian group Majdoorsamachar posted a curious text, Fringe Left , showing they not wholly lost their Stalinist-Maoist-Autonomist origins. I reproduce it here and give my [F.C.] comments [in italics and between square brackets]:

Fringe Left

Posted on 2021/06/18 by majdoorsamachar

German-Dutch Left and Italian Left did not break from the social-democratic framework
[A bold thesis put forward by Trotskyists, communizers, and their followers (including Internationalist Perspective). Curious to see the argument.]

and its underlying social strata
[Probably referring to the theory of workers' aristocracy, remade by Stalin into workerism, framed by Autonomists to glorify the unlearned mass worker, condemning educated workers]

despite their critiques of many facets of social-democratic theory and practice in Germany and especially of the Bolshevik Party in Russia after October 1917.
Their remnants in the fringe left, even during these thirty-five years that we have had some interactions with a few of them,
[as far as I had the pleasure to correspond with Majdoorsamachar, it showed insensitive for any critique. Instead, it limited itself to personal attacks and scorn, an old left-bourgeois tradition]

are stuck in the 1920s. Whereas, with incomparable leaps in productive forces since early-1970s,
[Here we find Stalin's deformation of historic materialist from history man-made by class struggle in favor of history determined by the evolution of productive forces, understood in a technical sense only]

“revolutionary intellectuals” have increasingly become irrelevant throughout the world.
[It have been 'Leninism' in all its forms and the deformations of the tendency Kautsky/Rühle/Brendel/Simon that believed that historical materialism was the product of 'intellectuals.' Majdoorsamachar may share that false thesis in a positive or negative way, it does not apply to the KAPD/GIC current]

Despite our above mentioned reading, on the basis of interactions with most of the strands of the left in India over these forty-five years, it seems that an acquaintance with the German-Dutch Left + Italian Left and their inheritors could be of help in questioning the leninist- stalinist-trotskyist-maoist framings that still have some influence.
[You are most welcome!]

So, this link to the current issue of “A Free Retriever’s Digest” (April-June 2021). Incidentally, this issue also has, “A Note on Peasants in the Indian Subcontinent” which we sent as a response to a write-up in the earlier issue of the magazine.

https://afreeretriever.wordpress.com/2021/05/05/a-free-retrievers-digest-vol-5-2-april-june-2021/“

June 2021

GIC, "We are building the structure of the new society in the shell of the old" (IWW), 1931
GIK, "Wir bauen die Struktur der neuen Gesellschaft in der Hülle der alten" (IWW), 1931
Max Hempel/Jan Appel, Das russische Wiederaufbauprogramm,1926
Herman Gorter, Le Matérialisme Historique, 1913

May 2021

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles:

Klopotek Felix: Rätekommunismus. Geschichte und Theorie Geschichte, 1. Auflage 2021
Le soviet des chômeurs, par Sergej Vasil’evic Malysev, edition le fil rouge
Philippe Bourrinet, Des alliances avec les Etats capitalistes à l’écrasement des marins de Kronstadt par l’Etat bolchevik
Philippe Bourrinet, Von Bündnissen mit kapitalistischen Staaten bis zur Zerschlagung der Kronstädter Matrosen durch den bolschewistischen Staat
Philippe Bourrinet, Van allianties met kapitalistische staten tot het neerslaan van de matrozen van Kronstadt door de bolsjewistische staat
Topic with several contribution in A Free Retriever’s Digest: The 1921 ‘Kronstadt Tragedy’ – Beginning of the Counterrevolution
Gorter, Religion et philosophie, 1909 (extrait de sa brochure : Le matérialisme historique).
GIK, Wir bauen die Struktur der neuen Gesellschaft in der Hülle der alten. In 1931 erstveröffentlicht von der GIK (Holland) als Schlussartikel der Serie „Der Unterschied in den Auffassungen der IWW und der Rätebewegung in Deutschland“

April 2021

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles:

Hannibal, "THE ICT ON KRONSTADT -1921 AND THE RCP (B). Centrist lessons, limited and ambiguous." (2021). Also in Spanish, in French, in German.
Paul Mattick, The Lenin legend (1935)
Paul Mattick, Bolshevism and Stalinism (1947)
Cajo Brendel, Kronstadt, Proletarian Spin-Off of The Russian Revolution, 1971.
Key quotation: "The Rebellion was the proletarian spin-off of this bourgeois revolution".
Brendel replaced Huhn as a speaker at the Kronstadt Congress in Berlin.
Unfortunately Huhn died before the congress.

March 2021

Anton Pannekoek, La necessidad economica del imperialismo (1916)
Anton Pannekoek The economic necessity of imperialism (1916), completely corrected version
Anton Pannekoek Gegen die Reaktion (1921). External link to Arbeiterstimmen
G.I.K. Randbemerkungen zu dem am 27/28 Aug. 1933 in Paris abgehaltenen Kongress zur Gründung einer 4. Internationale. External link to Arbeiterstimmen
G.I.C. Notas marginales sobre el congreso celebrado en París los días 27 y 28 de agosto de 1933 para la fundación de una IV Internacional. External link to Inter-rev Forum

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles:

Anibal, A un siglo del conflicto de marinos, soldados y obreros de la base naval de Kronstadt con el Estado ruso y el PCR (bolchevique).
Jamie Merchant, The Money Theory of the State. Reflections on Modern Monetary Theory in Brooklyn Rail.
Jehu, Jamie Merchant: Another asshole who thinks he knows more about what Marx wrote than Engels.
Has Capitalism entered its Decadence since 1914? A Blog Discussion (November 2020).
A Discussion on Capitalism’s Decadence. Contributions by the Inter-rev. Forum, Link and Fredo
- Decline and Senility of Capitalism with Marx, Engels and Communism
- Some Key Questions for Luxemburg’s Theory of Accumulation
In A Free Retriever’s Digest Vol.5 #1 (January – March 2021)
Fredo Corvo, Capitalism is coming to an end. But how?. Spanish version. French version. Dutch version.
Reply by Anibal: Decline of capitalism. Discussion. Spanish: Decadencia del capitalismo. Discusión. French: Déclin du capitalisme. Discussion.

February 2021

Fredo Corvo,G.I.C. sobre la economía del periodo de transición. Una introducción.
Anton Pannekoek The economic necessity of imperialism (1916).
Anton Pannekoek De ekonomische noodzakelijkheid van het imperialisme (1916).
Communistenbond 'Spartacus' Van slavenmaatschappij tot arbeidersmacht (1946). Doorzoekbaar PDF. Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog geschreven door Ben Karlsberg.

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles:

Fj et Marcm, deux textes:1) Islamisme : La complicité criminelle de la gauche et de l’extrême gauche du capital; 2) Impérialisme/anti-impérialisme.
Critique of Communization and Feminism. Two books by Aníbal / Inter-rev (in Spanish) introductions in English:

D.C. Pechino fa sue le presunte “revisioni” di Engels alla critica della economia politica di Marx (già “introdotte” da Stalin).

Turn of the year 2020/2021

GIC, Tesis sobre el partido y la dictadura (1932)
International Council Correspondence, The land of promise - report from Palestine (1935)
Translated from Internationale Rätekorrespondenz, The Arabs uprising in Palestine (1936)

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles:

Free download (PDF) of Lo spillover del profitto. Capitalismo, guerre ed epidemie. A.o. Philippe Bourrinet, "11 Capitalismo, guerre ed epidemie".
C.Mcl., Has Capitalism entered its Decadence since 1914? The Falsehoods of the International Communist Current (ICC) — A Critique. Followed by a discussion.
Elaborado por Anibal, Tres textos sobre la cuestión de la decadencia del capitalismo.
Libro Ediciones inter-rev. La ideología de la comunización como tergiversación del comunismo e inadecuada respuesta a las dificultades.
Anibal and Materia, Period of transition, socialism, communism. Based on a recent book published in Spanish language, as a second edition of the book “Against the tide”, including new parts, and correcting and changing others because the authors have studied new texts.
Elaborado por Anibal, Otto Rhüle sobre organizacion, partido, sindicato, centralismo, táctica, etc. Followed by a discussion with Michael Meer (also in English).
Ediciones inter-rev. (Elaborado por Anibal) Historia efectiva, historia imaginaria. Mujeres,hombres, clases, estados, división del trabajo, dinámicas sociales, producción,reproducción, derechos.
Gabriel Teles & Rubens Vinícius, Elementos para una crítica Marxista hacía el Leninismo, also in English translation, followed by a critique (Anibal).

November 2020

Communists League 'Spartacus' Tasks and Characteristics of the New party (1945). PDF.
Otto Rühle Grundfragen der Organisation, Die Aktion, (1921), mit Vorwort vom Übersetzer.
F.C. Sluiten democratie dictatuur elkaar uit of vullen ze elkaar aan? Een kritiek op Davis, ‘The road to anti-state, anti-market socialism’.

Interesting external links of the month:

October - December 2020 issue of A Free Retriever's Digest.
Gramscism or Marxism? Foreword (with additional footnotes) to the book Gramsci between Marxism and Idealism by Onorato Damen, translated and published last year. The book can now be downloaded as a PDF.
Os Intelectuais – Anton Pannekoek (como J. Harper). Publicado em International Council Correspondence, vol. 1, no. 12. Outubro 1935.
As Bases do Imperialismo Japonês – GIKH. Publicado em International Council Correspondence Vol. 1, no.7, abril de 1935, pp 1-7.
A Propósito do Partido Comunista – Anton Pannekoek sob o pseudônimo de J. Harper I.C.C. Vol. I. n.º 7 – Junho de 1936.
New site: Autonomie und Plan - Gedanken zu Weltcommune und Communismus.
New site: Materiaux critiques. Amongst others: Quelques éléments de réflexion sur la période de transition.

October 2020

Jim Davis, For a world in common. The Road to Anti-State Anti-market Socialism,
critique by Fredo Corvo, Do democracy and dictatorship exclude or supplement each other? (2020) ENGLISH.
Anton Pannekoek Marx und die Gewerkschaften (1909) GERMAN.
Anton Pannekoek Marx en de vakverenigingen (1909) DUTCH.
Otto Rühle Diverse teksten 1918 - 1940, met kritische kanttekeningen DUTCH.
Communistenbond 'Spartacus' Taak en Wezen van de Nieuwe Partij (1945) DUTCH.

Interesting external links of the month:

Chuang, 24-9-2020: Scaling the Firewall, 1: #LiftTheBucket, ("first of a new series of investigations into Chinese social media, compiling information on trends in social phenomena"), ENGLISH.
Annoucement book publication: Lo spillover del profitto - capitalismo, guerre ed epidemie, editor Colibrì edizioni, ITALIAN.
Ph. Bourrinet, An Introduction to Anton Pannekoek: Marxism and Darwinism (1909, 1914), October 2019, ENGLISH.
Ph. Bourrinet, Affaire Polanski et Affaire Dreyfus, à propos d'un article d'Echanges et Mouvement, ("An article that would have been better left under the bushel"), FRENCH.

September 2020

Fredo Corvo, The fatal myth of the bourgeois revolution in Russia. A critique of Wagner's 'Theses on Bolshevism’, PDF-pamphlet.
Fredo Corvo, De fatale mythe van de burgerlijke revolutie in Rusland. Een kritiek op Wagners ‘Stellingen over het bolsjewisme’, PDF-brochure

Interesting external links of the month:

Crítica Desapiedada Website (Portuguese)
Barbaria, The past of our being
Roi Ferreiro, On unionism and its revolutionary overcoming. A contribution to a debate between council communists
Angry Workers of the World, Day-to-day struggle and class consciousness – Response to the review of ‘Class Power on Zero-Hours’ by the Communist Workers Organisation (CWO)
CWO, The Disappointed of 1968: Seeking Refuge in Utopia
Marlowe, Resurgence

July 2020

A recent discussion article, Council communists of the world, organize (the workers, or yourselves?), was based on following historical document of the communist left:

Group of International Communistst (GIC), Theses on Revolutionary Workplace Nucleus, Party, and Dictatorship (1931), first translation into English (2020)
Gruppe von Internationalen Kommunisten (GIK), Thesen zu revolutionaren Betriebskernen, Partei und Diktatur (1931), Zugriff zu Arbeiterstimmen, first translation into German (2017)
Groep van Internationale Communisten (GIC), Stellingen omtrent revolutionaire bedrijfskernen, partij en dictatuur (1931), link naar arbeidersstemmen.nl, transcription of Dutch original

June 2020

Willy Huhn, Lenin als utopist (1948) in Dutch language, see below for German original and English translation

LEFT WING COMMUNISM, NOT an infantile disorder, our new site in construction, invites to a discussion on council communism and the revolution in Russia, starting from Wagners 'Theses'. We have added documents on the historical context and a biography:

Helmut Wagner "Theses on Bolshevism" (1933) [link to marxists.org]:

Biography of Helmut Wagner
Historical context of “Theses on Bolshevism” according to Wagners comrades in arms

Helmut Wagner, "Thesen über den Bolschewismus” (1933),

Historischer Kontext nach Wagners Kampfesgenossen,
Biographie Wagner.

Helmut Wagner "Stellingen over het Bolsjewisme" (1933, new translation into Dutch)

Biografie van Helmut Wagner, door Ph. Bourrinet
Historische context van de “Stellingen over het bolsjewisme” volgens Wagner's strijdmakkers

Annoucement by aaap.be:

de | en | fr | nl | Theme theories on Capitalist Crises (hopefully much to be extended in the year to come)

May 2020

Willy Huhn, On the doctrine of the revolutionary party (1961), translated into English and published in three parts, A Free Retriever's Digest, part 1, part 2, part 3: in Vol. 4 Issue #1.
Translated from German: Willy Huhn, Zur Lehre von der revolutionären Partei, 1948 (signaled here before).
F.C., An answer to “Questions without answers”. Anti-critique of a leftist book review of The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-1968), website A Free Retriever's Digest.

February 2020

Some recent books on the period of transition

We draw your attention to some recently published books by an author and publisher, who is new to the milieu interested in the Communist Left: Hermann Lueer and publisher Red & Black Books in Hamburg. When giving introductions to Marxism throughout Germany, Lueer was regularly asked about the alternative to capitalism. In search of an answer, Lueer discovered Grundprinzipien kommunistischer Produktion und Verteilung by Gruppe Internationaler Kommunisten (G.I.K.) of 1930.

In his homage to the work of the G.I.K. under the same title, Lueer gives a current introduction to the actual core of the work of the G.I.K.: how can the 'association of free and equal people' (Marx in Capital), or in his 1871 writings about the 'Commune'-organization, or how in 1917 the 'council organization' can gain and, above all, retain power over the means of production? After all, in Russia the workers soon lost power over the enterprises.

The answer lies in the fact that reformism in social democracy ignored Marx' and Engels' view, particularly in Marx' Critique of the Gotha Programme, of an economy with working hours as a measure of production and, initially, also consumption. Instead, reformism accepted Hilferding's view, which suggested that in socialism economy should be organized as a General Cartel, the organizational form of highly developed capitalism, i.e., controlled by economic specialists. Lenin took over this view and realized it in Russia, with which the dictatorship over the proletariat was a fact.

Lueer's tribute to the work of the G.I.K. is now available in three languages: German, English and Dutch.

Lueer's tribute does not address various criticisms since the republishing in 1970 of the first edition in German in 1930. Especially that of Paul Mattick in his introduction to this reprint, followed by Gilles Dauvé and finally Raoul Victor. Victor's text of 2016 'in response to Kees' under the title The Economy in the Transition to a 'Communist' Society (*), served the German-speaking group Freundinnen und Freunde der klassenlosen Gesellschaft as a starting point for their discussions of 21-3-2018: Umrisse der Weltcommune. On the group's website, Kosmoprolet, a discussion was published, including Lueer's contribution Kritik von Hermann Lueer an den Thesen zur Weltcommune (20-1-2019). It is typical of the quality of this discussion contribution that Kosmoprolet was forced to ask Victor for a position, which appeared as Arbeitszeitrechnung und ökonomische Rationalität in einer postkapitalistischen Gesellschaft (4-11-2019). It is curious to see that the reply by Lueer, Antwort an Raoul Victor, was not posted on the Kosmoprolet website until now, nor has been it included in the book KLASSE, KRISE, WELTCOMMUNE. Beiträge zur Selbstabschaffung des Proletariats with all other contributions. It seems therefor that Victor does not have an answer, and certainly not the Freunde as an organization, while it is clear from other contributions to the discussion that some do share the views of the G.I.K.

Hermann Lueer has meanwhile published the first German translation of the Dutch second edition of Fundamental Principles in book form: Grundprinzipien kommunistischer Produktion und Verteilung, and its first English translation: Fundamental principles of communist production and distribution.

These translations are of great significance. As explained in The G.I.C. and the Economy of the Transition Period - Introductory Article, the 1935 second edition in Dutch was supplemented with fragments in reply to certain critics and misunderstandings. Amongst others, the supposed 'utopian character' of the propositions of the G.I.K., the question of 'equality', on the dictatorship of the proletariat, and on libertarian communism. Important information on the agrarian question in the Russian and in the German Revolution was added. This edition was the last edited by the G.I.K. and therefor is its final answer to the objections at the time raised against its positions.

(*) Originally in French, 12-10-2011. For an answer, not from Kees, see Over het scherm rolden ... (June 2016) third contribution (in Dutch), English translation.

November 2019

Anton Pannekoek, Marxisme et darwinisme, traduction de l’allemand, édition et notes (octobre 2019): Philippe Bourrinet. Avec une introduction critique de 14 pages du traducteur et éditeur.
Spartacus, Weekblad van de Communistenbond ‘Spartacus’, 1947, Trotski en de vakvereniging.

October 2019

'Internationalisme'(GCF), On the National and Colonial Question (1945/1946).
Basistexte Marxismus - Rätekommunismus, für individuelles Selbstlernen, Studien- und Diskussionsgruppen (link to the German Blog Arbeiterstimmen).
Basisteksten marxisme - radencommunisme, voor individuele zelfstudie, voor studie- en discussiegroepen (link to the Dutch Website Arbeidersstemmen).

September 2019

Anton Pannekoek Marxismus und Darwinismus (1914).
Communists League 'Spartacus' Spartacus and Trotskyism (1946).
Communistenbond 'Spartacus' Spartacus en het Trotskisme (1946).
Anton Pannekoek Staatssozialismus (1913).
Anton Pannekoek Staatsmonopolie en Socialisme (1911).
Anton Pannekoek Frauenwahlrechtskampf (1909).
Anton Pannekoek Vrouwenkiesrecht (1910).
Anton Pannekoek De bevrijding van de vrouw (1911).

July 2019

Anton Pannekoek The Destruction of Nature (1909).
Anton Pannekoek La destruction de la Nature (1909).
Anton Pannekoek Naturverwüstung (1909).
Anton Pannekoek Verwoesting van de natuur (1909).

May 2019

F.C., The G.I.C. and the economy of the transition period, part 1, part 2, links to A Free Retriever's Digest - An internationalist Articles Selection & Review.
F.C., Le G.I.C. et l’économie de la période de transition. Une introduction.
F.C., Die GIK und die Ökonomie der Übergangsperiode. Eine Einführung.
F.C., De GIC en de economie van de overgangsperiode. Een inleiding.
Bernhard Reichenbach, Contribution à l’histoire du KAPD, Leipzig, 1928.

March 2019

Ph. Bourrinet, The Workers’ Councils in Germany 1918-23 (Part 2) link to A Free Retriever's Digest - An internationalist Articles Selection & Review
F.C., The G.I.C. and the economy of the transition period, part 1, part 2, links to A Free Retriever's Digest - An internationalist Articles Selection & Review
Two articles by Anton Pannekoek in ‘Arbeiterpolitik’,The outcome of the struggle, and International Communism in No. 5 (Feb.1, 1919). Link to A Free Retriever's Digest
A Letter from Comrade Pannekoek, on the ‘Unionen’ Question and ‘National Bolshevism',‘Der Kommunist’, KAPD, July 1920. Link to A Free Retriever's Digest
Willy Huhn, Zur Lehre von der revolutionären Partei, 1948

December 2018

Ph. Bourrinet The Workers’ Councils in Germany 1918-23 (Part 1) link to A Free Retriever's Digest - An internationalist Articles Selection & Review
A. Pannekoek: The outcome of the struggle (‘Arbeiterpolitik’, February 1st, 1919) see p. 17, link to A Free Retriever's Digest - An internationalist Articles Selection & Review
Ph. Bourrinet Le mouvement des conseils en Russie & Finlande, Allemagne, Autriche & Hongrie, 1917-1919
Ph. Bourrinet Les conseils ouvriers en Allemagne 1918-23 (paru dans Controverses - Forum pour la Gauche Communiste Internationaliste)
Ph. Bourrinet Arbeiterräte in Deutschland 1918-23 Teil 1, Teil 2, Teil 3, Teil 4 in "Arbeiterstimmen", ergänzt mit historischen Dokumenten
Ph. Bourrinet De arbeidersraden in Duitsland 1918-23, deel 1, deel 2 (link naar Arbeiderstemmen)
Anton Pannekoek, 1918: De Duitse Revolutie (link naar Arbeiderstemmen)
K. Horner (Ant. Pannekoek), 1920: De Derde Internationale en de Wereldrevolutie (link naar Arbeiderstemmen)

October 2018

Geluidsbestanden van het interview van Jan Appel, 1982 door Jan Halkes ©

April 2018

Willy Huhn (1948): ‘Lenin as a Utopian’ posted on March 30, 2018 by A Free Retriever.
ARTURO PEREGALLI L’autre Résistance Le PCI et les oppositions de gauche 1943-1945 Traduction de l’italien en français : Jean-Pierre LAFFITTE, 15 avril 2018.

“From the 2nd to the 3rd Internationale - Three articles by Anton Pannekoek". The New Review, New York, 1914-1916.
Introduction,
The downfall of the International,
New tactics against war, basis of a new International,
The Third Internationale.

March 2018

“Der Kommunist - Flugzeitung der Kommunistischen Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (Sachsen)", ab Nr. 19, April 1920, Flugzeitung der Kommunistischen Arbeiterschaft Ostsachsens”, ab Nr. 49, Dezember 1920, Organ der Kommunistischen Arbeiterschaft Ostsachsens und der Allgemeinen Arbeiter-Union Gross-Dresden (Revolutionäre Betriebsorganisation” Nr. 53, Dezember 1920 Nr. 54, Januar 1921 Nr. 56, Januar 1921.
Willy Huhn Lenin und die russische Revolution.

January 2018

Willy Huhn Lenin als Utopist, sehe auch Buchbesprechung Gester “Auf der Suche nach Rosas Erbe. Der deutsche Marxist Willy Huhn (1909-1970)”, Berlin, Die Buchmacherei, 2017.

December 2017

Marxism and state communism. The withering away of the state - G.I.C. 1932. Renewed edition, comparing with 1927 German original text by Hempel (ps. Jan Appel).
Bericht des IV. Kongreß der Kommunistischen Internationale.
Protokoll des III. Kongreß der Kommunistischen Internationale.
G.I.K. Thesen zu revolutionären Betriebskernen, Partei und Diktatur 1931 - 1932.
Programme Du Parti Communiste-Ouvrier d’Allemagne Berlin, Janv. 1924.
Schreiben der G.I.K. an die 1928 Konferenz der I.W.W.

November 2017

The Communist Left and Marxist Humanism Part 2/2 The ‘Unfinished American Revolution’ by Fredo Corvo
Klassenkampf im Kriege Der zweite Weltkrieg ist unabwendbar / GIK (Holland) 1935.
Programm der Kommunistischen Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands Berlin, Januar 1924.

October 2017

Philippe Bourrinet L’impact de la Révolution Russe en Allemagne 1914-1918

September 2017

Thesen zu Adam "Karl Marx & der Staat" - ein Diskussionstext.
see David Adam Karl Marx & the State MHI.
Stellingen bij Adam "Karl Marx & de Staat" (op arbeidersstemmen.nl)
zie David Adam "Karl Marx en de staat" MHI.
Reader G.I.C. ‘Grondbeginselen der communistische productie’ deel I. De politieke randvoorwaarden (op arbeidersstemmen.nl)
Reader in dutch language with citations from the Group(s) of International Communists
on the political framework of Fundamental principles of communist production and distribution.

August 2017

Philippe Bourrinet Le communisme des conseils et la domination du « politique » par l’« économique » dans une période révolutionnaire.
Nous republions ce texte écrit à l’occasion d’un colloque à l’Université de Paris-X-Nanterre (« Penser l’émancipation », février 2014). Il a été revu et corrigé. Nous remercions tout particulièrement Inter forum (Espagne) pour ses critiques pertinentes qui nous ont permis d’affiner en plusieurs points une analyse parfois sommaire ou contradictoire. Ph. B., 24 juillet 2017.

June 2017

Philippe Bourrinet Lexikon des deutschen Rätekommunismus 1920-1960. Dieses Lexikon ergänzt unsere Arbeit über der deutsch-niederländischen Kommunistischen Linke, die von Brill, Leiden, in Dezember 2016 veröffentlicht wurde. Unser einziger Zweck ist durch bezeichnende Biographien die politischen (doch widersprüchlichen) Positionen der kommunistischen Linken (KAPD) sowie der Unionen-Bewegung (AAU und AAU-E) in Deutschland zu belichten.
Max Hempel (Jan Appel) "Marx-Engels und Lenin. Über die Rolle des Staates in der proletarischen Revolution", Proletarier Nr. 4–6 , 1927.
G.I.C. "Marxisme en staatscommunisme. Het afsterven van de staat", Persdienst Internationale Communisten Holland, 1932.

May 2017

Biographie von Alfred Dethmann. Vier Biographien der deutschen kommunistischen Linke: Jelinek, Korsch, Scharrer, Wagner.
Comunismo de consejos o consejismo? Reseña del libro de Ph. Bourrinet “The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-68); ‘Neither Lenin nor Trotsky nor Stalin!”, ‘All workers must think for themselves!’” Leiden/Boston (Brill)
Comunismo de consejos o consejismo? Reseña del libro de Ph. Bourrinet “The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-68); ‘Neither Lenin nor Trotsky nor Stalin!”, ‘All workers must think for themselves!’” Leiden/Boston (Brill)
David Adam "Marx en de staat" (dutch translation of David Adam Marx & the State MHI)
Protokoll der Vereinigungs-Konferenz der AAUD und AAUE
10. Reichskonferenz der Algem. Arb. Union Deutschlands. 24 - 27 Dezember 1931 zu Berlin

April 2017

Franz Jung “Werkloos - Arbeiders, er op af!” in Räte-Zeitung No. 6, 1919
P.B. Lebenslauf Otto Rühle (1874–1943)
P.B. Lebenslauf Jan Appel (1890–1985)
Fredo Corvo: Kritik an Nelke "Februarrevolution" (Gruppe Sozialer Widerstand)
Fredo Corvo: op het blog van 'Arbeidersstemmen' verschenen Kritiek op Nelke "Februarirevolutie"
Jonas "Voorbij de agrarische revolutie" (2012)
GIC "De ontwikkeling van het boerenbedrijf - ontwikkelingslijnen in de landbouw" (1930)

February 2017

Lénine philosophe par Anton Pannekoek ("John Harper"), 1938. Une édition critique de Lénine philosophe de Pannekoek, basée sur les versions anglaise, française et allemande. Ph. B. dans son introduction souligne l’apport politique de Pannekoek dans sa critique de Lénine mais aussi les faiblesses notoires de son argumentaire philosophique.
Fredo Corvo, book review of Philippe Bourrinet “The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-68); ‘Neither Lenin nor Trotsky nor Stalin!”, ‘All workers must think for themselves!’”, Leiden/Boston (Brill) ISBN 978-90-04-26977-4 .Also published on Libcom.org and on Pantopolis, both blogs where you can post comments.
Anton Pannekoek "De arbeiders, het parlement en het communisme" (GIC, 1933)
Jean-Pierre Laffitte (traduction), Philippe Bourrinet (révision, édition et notes)
‘Troisième’, ’quatrième’, nième Internationale ? ou Parti Communiste Mondial?
Sténogramme du congrès public extraordinaire du KAPD, tenu à Berlin du 11 au 14 Septembre 1921, Dresdner Garten.
Kommunistische Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands ‘Außerordentlicher öffentlicher parteitag der K.A.P.D.’ vom 11. bis 14. September 1921 zu Berlin, Dresdener Garten.

January 2017

Nederlands:

Loren Goldner "Communisme is de materiële menselijke gemeenschap: Amadeo Bordiga in onze tijd"
Loren Goldner "Loren Goldner “De Chinese arbeidersklasse in de wereldwijde kapitalistische crisis: revolutionaire massastaking of een nieuwe bureaucratische inkapseling?" op arbeidersstemmen.wordpress.com.

English:

Loren Goldner "Communism is the Material Human Community: Amadeo Bordiga Today" breaktheirhaughtypower.org
Loren Goldner “The Chinese Working Class in the Global Capitalist Crisis: Revolutionary Mass Strike or a New Bureaucratic Containment? Theses” breaktheirhaughtypower.org

Deutsch:

Loren Goldner "Der Kommunismus ist die materielle menschliche Gemeinschaft: Amadeo Bordiga heute" breaktheirhaughtypower.org
Loren Goldner “Die chinesische Arbeiterklasse in der Weltwirtschaftskrise: Revolutionäre Massenstreik oder die bureaukratische Integration? Thesen zum Klassenkampf in China” breaktheirhaughtypower.org

Other languages: see Goldners site breaktheirhaughtypower.org.

December 2016

“Amadeo Bordiga: Die ökonomische und gesellschaftliche Struktur des heutigen Russland” von Christian Riechers.
"Amadeo Bordiga: De economische en maatschappelijke structuur van het huidige Rusland" door Christian Riechers.

November 2016

Frank Dingel Paul Mattick 1904-1981 Biografie und Schriften in deutscher Sprache.
Philippe Bourrinet La sinistra comunista italiana (1927-1952) contributo a una storia del movimento rivoluzionario, Parigi nov. 2016, 2a edizione.
A.B. Soep "Nationalisme of internationalisme? (Met een onuitgesproken rede voor het congres van de s.d.a.p., april 1915)" / A.B. Soep. – ’s-Gravenhage : Verkrijgbaar bij drukkerij „De Arbeid”, Brouwersgracht 8, [1915]. – 68 p. PDF's bij aaap.be: p. i-v; p. 1-16; p. 17-28; p. 29-50; p. 51-68. Zie voor een biografie van Soep bij het IISG.
Adolf Dethmann Die Sowjetregierung und die 3. Internationale im Schlepptau der internationalen Bourgeoisie! (1921).
Adolf Dethmann Le gouvernement soviétique et la IIIe Internationale à la remorque de la bourgeoisie internationale! (1921) avec appendice Congrès extraordinaire public du K.A.P.D. du 11 au 14 septembre 1921 à Berlin, Dresdner Garten, Interventions du rapporteur Dethmann, GHA du KAPD, sur «la nécessité de la création d’une Internationale communiste-ouvrière»
[Adolf Dettman] De sowjet-regering en de derde Internationale op sleeptouw der internationale bourgeoisie / , uit het Duits [door Herman Gorter]. – [Amsterdam : Uitgave der Kommunistische Arbeiderspartij (k.a.p.) in Nederland, 1922. – 39 p. Bij aaap.be p. 1-19, p. 20-39
Der Kampf der Arbeiter; Sieben Aufsätze aus der Leipziger Volkszeitung / Ant[on]. Pannekoek. – Leipzig : Leipziger Buchdruckerei Aktiengesellschaft, 1907. PDF der Originale in gothischer Schrift bei aaap.be: Teil 1,Teil 2, html bei marxistst.org.

October 2016

Announcement by publisher Brill: Bourrinet The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900–68) ‘Neither Lenin nor Trotsky nor Stalin!’ - ‘All Workers Must Think for Themselves!’ (external link), invaluable and unpayable.
Anton Pannekoek Bolsjewisme en democratie (1918).
Anton Pannekoek "Bolschewismus und Demokratie - Vortrag, gehalten vor der Ortsgruppe Neumünster der Internationalen Kommunistischen Partei / Von Anton Pannekoek", erschienen in Arbeiterpolitik, 3. Jg., Nr. 50, 14. Dezember 1918, S. 303-304 1918, 1919 als Broschüre von der Kommunistischen Partei Deutschösterreichs, und 1919 in Wien bei der Verlagsgenossenschaft “Neue Erde”. Als html bei marxists.org.
Ph. Bourrinet ‘Gramscisme’ et ‘Bordiguisme’ - Le sens d’une confrontation politique hier et aujourd’hui, version 2-10-2016.

September 2016

Marxism and state communism. The withering away of the state - G.I.C. 1932.
Pamphlet never translated into English before, the Group(s) of International Communists critising Lenin 'The State and the revolution.'
Part of this text was integrated into 'Basic principles of communist production and distribution'.

August 2016

In dutch language only: Anton Pannekoek "Friedrich Adler" 1916 (met een inleiding "individueel terrorisme of proletarische massastrijd tegen de imperialistische oorlog?"). Ajoute en francais:
"A mettre en parallèle avec un texte de Bordiga, qui lui soutient l’action terroriste de Friedrich Adler... «Fritz Adler, notre camarade, de ceux que nous connaissons et aimons, qui a adhéré à Zimmerwald, qui a reproduit à la main le Manifeste de la minorité socialiste autrichienne lu par beaucoup d’entre nous non sans larmes d’émotion et d’enthousiasme… Ce n’est pas un fou, pardieu ! … Son acte fut le corollaire de sa – de notre – campagne internationaliste. Le fait est une propagande plus efficace que les mots… Friedrich Adler est des nôtres. Il appartient au prolétariat international, dont il est devenu le symbole». Bordiga, «Adler», L’Avanguardia, 5 novembre 1916, in Scritti..., op. cit., p. 290-291."

Ph. Bourrinet Un siècle de Gauche Communiste «Italienne» (1915-2015) version 13-8-2016:
suivi d’un Dictionnaire biographique d’un courant internationaliste.

Philippe Bourrinet - Internationalisme contre «national- bolchevisme»

Le deuxième congrès du KAPD (1er - 4 août 1920)

Berlin, janvier 1919, la Révolution en marche, du grand-père au petit-fils...

Traductions de l’allemand, édition, illustrations, notes et texte d’introduction.

Anton Pannekoek 1912 Klassenkampf und Nation, Class Struggle and Nation, Lutte de classe et nation, Klassenstrijd en natie

July 2016

Ant. Pannekoek "De ineenstorting van de Internationale" (with an introduction in Dutch), English version see The Downfall of the International at aaap.be.

June 2016

Herman Gorter Der Imperialismus, der Weltkrieg und die Sozialdemokratie. Übersetzung aus dem Holländischen.

April 2016

Ph. Bourrinet Un siècle d’un courant internationaliste : la gauche communiste d’Italie (1915-2015) 24-4-2016
Anton Pannekoek World Revolution and Communist Tactics, 1920. Text edition aaap.be
Anton Pannekoek The New Blanquism, 1920. Text edition Marxists.org
Anton Pannekoek, Weltrevolution und kommunistische Taktik, 1920. Textversion Marxistst.org. PDF von Orginal: Umschlagbild, S.1-16, S. 17-26, S. 27-45, S. 46-52 (Nachtrag)
Anton Pannekoek, Der neue Blanquismus, 1920. Textversion Marxists.org.
Anton Pannekoek Theorie en beginsel in de arbeidersbeweging (1906), hyperlinks naar tekstversie marxists.org, orginele scan aaap.be.
Anton Pannekoek ‘Het nieuwe Blanquisme’ (1920).
Ph. Bourrinet Pathologie sectaire dans la gauche communiste de la forteresse assiégée à l’écroulement de la Baliverna / version 7-4-2016.

March 2016

Ph. Bourrinet Pathologie sectaire dans la gauche communiste de la forteresse assiégée à l’écroulement de la Baliverna
Nouveau page en Farsi.
Page en Néerlandais diverses aujoutes.

December 2015

Ph. Bourrinet La Gauche Communiste d'Italie première partie : de la première guerre mondiale à la scission de 1952 / dec. 2015
Hommage à un militant et historien internationaliste : Sandro Saggioro (1949-2015)

October 2015

Ph. Bourrinet, Abrégé d’histoire de la gauche communiste italienne (1915-2015) Première partie : à l’épreuve des guerres (1915-1945)

Mai 2015

Groupe des socialistes internationalistes (Berlin) : La participation allemande au génocide des Arméniens / 4-5-2015.
Gruppe Internationaler Sozialistinnen (GIS): Der Genozid an den Armeniern und die deutsche Beteiligung / 4-5-2015.
GRECE : Sous Syriza, la répression de l’Etat as usual... Solidarité avec la grève de la faim des prisonniers politiques grecs! (français, deutsch, espanol) / 1er Mai 2015.

April 2015

Herman Gorter : La organización de la lucha de clase de los proletarios (Die Klassenkampf-Organisation des Proletariats), Berlín, 1921 / avril 2015.
Sans attendre le centenaire de la révolution à Berlin : Novembre 1918… :
Adam Scharrer, Les Sans-Patrie, roman, 1931 (extrait final).

March 2015

Ter nagedachtenis: Ron 1958-2015 - F.K. 29-3-2015
Bijlage Van Provo tot Wij eisen geluk Wereldrevolutie nr. 3 - januari 1979.
Das Problem des Nationalismus und die GKM (Gruppe Kommunistischer Maximalisten) Russland/Ukraine. - Erklärung der Internationalistischen Kommunistischen Tendenz (IKT) – 15. März 2014 / pub. März 2015.
Flugschrift der Gruppe Internationaler Sozialistinnen - Für die staaten – und klassenlose Gesellschaft Nationalistische Massaker in der Ukraine: Es gibt keine „richtige“ Seite im imperialistischen Krieg! - 22. März 2015.
Emancipacion obrera Buenos Aires Crítica al Programa de Transición de León Trotsky / mars 2015.
A propos des attentats de Copenhague (février 2015):
Carsten Juhl, Politique belliciste et ethnocratisme constitutionnel au Danemark, ou l’“expressionnisme” est‐il soluble dans l’anti‐islamisme? / mars 2015.
“Défaitisme révolutionnaire”, un article à méditer face aux conflits impérialistes locaux (L’internationale, organe de l’Union communiste, n° 38, juin 1938) / mars 2015.

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