"The administrative state is being ripped up, the economic world system is in flux, legal norms erode further by the day, and at least for now, little resistance is being mounted capable of halting—let alone reversing—this evisceration. The world is getting hotter, and the necessary global coordination to halt this increase appears further away now than it did even a decade ago."
"Emerging in a nascent form during the short-lived Paris Commune of 1871 as the political body of the uprising, the workers' council only came into its own during the 1905 uprising in Russia, when the councils emerged from the workplace itself in an effort to cooperatively determine the reproduction of the revolution by producing for the collective need."
Current political and ecological conditions create pessimism about leftist prospects in America, with state institutions being dismantled, economic systems destabilized, legal norms eroding, weak resistance, and climate coordination slipping further away. Council communism functions as a model centered on workers' councils as organizational and revolutionary instruments. Workers' councils originated in the Paris Commune of 1871 and reemerged during Russia's 1905 uprising, arising from workplaces to coordinate production for collective needs. The council form surfaced across 1917–1923 revolutions globally and saw renewed attention after 1968, which stimulated further theoretical critique and development.
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