Workers' Councils / Edition 1

by Anton Pannekoek, Noam Chomsky

Overview

Contemporaries across the spectrum of Left thought, from Antonio Negri to Noam Chomsky, are falling over each other to claim the mantle of Left Communism. Left Communism is the theory and practice of worker control and self-organization whose adherents provided the main opposition to the Bolsheviks. Rarely printed, often cited, Pannekoek’s Workers’ Councils is the Das Kapital of Left Communism. This updated edition includes a substantial introduction from Noam Chomsky, illuminating the continuing relevance of this classic text.

"An urgent message to the future— are we listening?—from the most brilliant theoretician of libertarian com-munism."—Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz

Anton Pannekoek was a Dutch worker, Socialist, and astronomer. He wrote Workers’ Councils amidst Nazi occupation of Holland.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781902593562
Publisher:	AK PR INC
Publication date:	11/01/2002
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	1,013,830
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter — Table of Contents — 1. Introduction — 2. The Independence of Grammar — 3. An elementary Linguistic Theory — 4. Phrase Structure — 5. Limitations of Phrase Structure Description — 6. On the Goals of Linguistic Theory — 7. Some Transformations in English — 8. The explanatory Power of Linguistic Theory — 9. Syntax and Semantics — 10. Summary — 11. Appendix I. Notations and Terminology — 12. Appendix II. Examples of English Phrase Structure and transformational Rules — Backmatter