Council Communism
Makes workers’ councils, rather than a ruling party or parliamentary elite, the institutions of socialist self-government and control of production.
Foundational doctrines
- Workers’ councils
- Proletarian self-emancipation
- Anti-bureaucracy
- Social ownership
Disagreement and variation
Its advocates dispute how councils can coordinate beyond a workplace; other socialists question their capacity to sustain wider political representation and stable administration. Council organization and party roles remain debated; this tradition differs sharply from centralized party-state socialism.
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