The making of council democracy : state transformation and radical possibilities / Babak Amini.

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New York : Routledge, 2024.

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Babak Amini is a lecturer at the University of the West of Scotland and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia. He is the co-editor of "Classical Sociology and the First World War" (Journal of Classical Sociology, 2024) and Routledge Handbook of Marx's Capital: A Global History of Translation, Dissemination and Reception (Routledge, 2025).

""Council democracy" is a particular form of democratic socialism that strives towards democratic self-governance on the basis of active, free, and associated individuals working cooperatively within a federated council system. Both in political practice and social theory, "council democracy" has resurfaced periodically in the past, most notably in the interwar period, in the "long 1960s", and since the turn of the 21st century. This book offers a novel theoretical and methodological approach to the study of "council democracy". It focuses on the processes that led to the emergence of two of the foundational and most radical instances of "council democratic" movements in Germany during the German Revolution (1918-1919) and in Italy during the biennio rosso (1919-1920). With all their diversities, ambiguities, and shortcomings, these movements, in varying degrees, sought democratic alternatives to autocratic relations, from local to state levels, and to economic relations, from workplace to national levels. The book shows how the processes through which state-led war mobilization transformed the contours of class struggle laid the ground for the emergence of "council democratic" movements with specific characteristics in Germany and Italy and not in the United Kingdom and France"-- Provided by publisher.

Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.

Print version: Amini, Babak. Making of council democracy First. New York : Routledge, 2024

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October 01, 2024

Includes bibliographical references and index.