Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Between Social Democracy and Council Dictatorship: The Council Movements in Historical Perspective
2: Freedom as Collective Self-Determination
3: Building Workers' Power
4: Socialist Republicanism
5: Socialist Civic Virtues
Conclusion: After the Councils

About the Author

James Muldoon is a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Exeter. He is the editor of Council Democracy: Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics (Routledge, 2018), The German Revolution and Political Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and Trumping the Mainstream: The Conquest of Mainstream Democratic Politics by Far-Right Populism (Routledge, 2018).