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The Saxon tendency
On this anti-party and anarchist, not to say “pedagogic”, current, see:
FRANCK (Sebastian), Soziologie der Freiheit. Otto Rühles Auffassung vom Sozialismus, Ulm, 1951. Translated
into French under the title: ‘La conception du socialisme chez Rühle‘, in Cahiers du communisme de conseils,
No. 2, Marseilles, Jan. 1969. Written by a follower of Rühle: Henry Jacoby.
HERMANN (Friedrich-Georg)‚ ‘Otto Rühle als politischer Theoritiker’, IWK, Berlin, Heft 17, Dec.1972; Heft
18, April 1973. A complete study of Rühle’s conception of the revolution.
MATTICK (Paul), ‘Otto Rühle and the German Workers’ Movement’, 1945, in Anti-Bolshevik Communism,
Merlin Press, 1978. Also in French: ‘Otto Rühle et le mouvement ouvrier allemand’ (Paris: Cahiers Spartacus,
No. 63, Oct.-Nov. 1975).
Gorter and the Essen tendency
There is hardly anything on the Essen current, which was dominated by Gorter’s strongly idealist tendency:
BRANDT CORSTIUS (J. C.), Herman Gorter. Een bijdrage tot de kennis van zijn leven en werk (a contribution
to the understanding of hts life and work) (Utrecht, 1934).
CORNELISSEN (Igor), ‘Herman Gorter en de KAP’, in Vrij Nederland, 28 Nov. 1964.
CORNELISSEN (Igor), ‘Frits Kief’, Vrij Nederland, 7 August 1976.
CORNELISSEN (Igor), Van Zwolle tot Brest-Litowsk. Ontstuim herninneringen. Elements on Frits Kief
(Amsterdam, 1983).
DOORENBOS (Jenne Clinge), Wisselend getij. Dichterlijke en politieke activiteit in Herman Gorter leven
(Amsterdam, 1964).
KIEF (Frits), ‘Herman Gorter en het socialisme’, in Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift, 1960, pp. 460-475.
STUIVELING (Garmt), Acht over Gorter. Several studies on Gorter’s literary and political work (Amsterdam:
Querido, 1978).
The Pannekoek Tendency
BOEKELMAN (Mark), Development of the social and political Thought of Anton Pannekoek 1873-1960 (from
social democracy to council communism), Doctoral Thesis, Toronto University (Canada), 1980.
BRENDEL (Cajo), Anton Pannekoek theoretikus van het socialisme (Pannekoek theoretician of Socialism). An
important political biography by one of the representatives of Dutch (and international) council communism
today (Nijmegen: SUN, 1970).
BRENDEL (Cajo), Anton Pannekoek, Denker der Revolution (Freiburg: Çà Ira Verlag, 2001). German
translation of the Dutch text, uptodated.
GERBER (John), Anton Pannekoek and the socialism of workers’ self-emancipation, 1873-1960. Abridged ed.
of the Gerber’s doctorate thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1984 (Dordrecht/Boston: Kluwer Academic
Publishers; Amsterdam: IISG, 1989).
GERBER (John), ‘Anton Pannekoek and the Quest For an Emancipatory socialism’, in New Politics, A Journal
of Socialist Thought, Vol. II, No. 5, New York, Summer 1988.
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