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Workers Councils (1936 article)
Pannekoek, Anton
http://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/MIA/pannekoe/1936/councils.htmhttp://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1936/councils.htm Publisher: International Council Correspondence Year Published: 1936 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX10865 Fighting for freedom is not letting your leaders think for you and decide, and following obediently behind them, or from time to time scolding them. Fighting for freedom is partaking to the full of ones capacity, thinking and deciding for oneself, taking all the responsibilities as a self-relying individual amidst equal comrades. It is true that to think for oneself, to think out what is true and right, with a head dulled by fatigue, is the hardest, the most difficult task; it is much harder than to pay and to obey. But it is the only way to freedom. To be liberated by others, whose leadership is the essential part of the liberation, means the getting of new masters instead of the old ones. Subject Headings |