Building Power to Change the World - The Political Thought of the German Council Movements

Informationen zum Autor James Muldoon is a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Exeter. He is the editor of Council Democracy: Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics (Routledge, 2018), The German Revolution and Political Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and Trumping the Mainstream: The Conquest of Mainstream Democratic Politics by Far-Right Populism (Routledge, 2018). Klappentext The German council movements brought down the German monarchy, founded several short-lived council republics and dramatically transformed European politics. This book reconstructs how participants in the German council movements struggled for a democratic socialist society. Zusammenfassung The German council movements brought down the German monarchy, founded several short-lived council republics and dramatically transformed European politics. This book reconstructs how participants in the German council movements struggled for a democratic socialist society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Between Social Democracy and Council Dictatorship: The Council Movements in Historical Perspective 2: Freedom as Collective Self-Determination 3: Building Workers' Power 4: Socialist Republicanism 5: Socialist Civic Virtues Conclusion: After the Councils

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• Authors: James Muldoon, James (Lecturer in Political Science Muldoon
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.2020
• EAN: 9780198856627
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885662-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General