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Pannekoek applies his critique to the theories of Luxemburg and Grossman - and shows why capitalism will never collapse due to any internal systemic contradictions, but only by the conscious action of the working class. "The self-emancipation of the proletariat is the collapse of capitalism."

Pannekoek surveys the possibilities and obstacles for communist revolution in 1920.

A history by Gabriella M. Bonacchi of council communist efforts in the US in the 1930s.

A beautifully illustrated book by prole.info which takes one seemingly simple thing - a house - and examines the social relations around it. From the construction site to the city, from gender roles to unions, what starts as a look at the house broadens into a critique of capitalism as a whole.

Interesting article focusing on the activity of exiled German anarcho-syndicalists in Spain, both in the lead up to and during the Civil War and Revolution of 1936.

Libéralisme et socialisme héritent d'un même corpus idéologique. Ce qui les divisent, ce sont les implications politiques de ces idéaux.

El 10 de marzo de 1938, quizás el 11 por la mañana, Ludwig von Mises abandonaba su querido hogar vienés. Ese mismo día 11, tropas alemanas al mando de Himmler entraron en la capital austriaca, y dos días después un pelotón de la Gestapo irrumpió en su domicilio. No le encontraron, pero confiscaron su biblioteca, que añoró el resto de su vida, y sus papeles. Los empaquetaron en 21 cajas, y nada más se supo de ellos hasta que, en los primeros días de mayo de 1945, el Ejército soviét...

Socialism, nationalism and Ireland Before and during the Second International there were many different approaches to the questions of socialism and nationalism. In Ireland James Connolly banked on nationalists taking a positive attitude towards the cause of labour. In his next article Marc Mulholland will look at Ireland’s conservative revolution The liberal republicanism coming out of the French Revolution had generally aimed for a radical reconfiguration of Europe’s boundaries. The old d...