Antonie Pannekoek Quotes
1873–1960 Netherlands
Antonie Pannekoek (2 January 1873 – 28 April 1960) was a Dutch astronomer, Marxist theorist, and social revolutionary.
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Also known as: Anton Pannekoek
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The capitalist is not driven by the desire to provide his fellow-men with the necessities of life; he is driven by the necessity of making money.
Workers Councils (1947)
Public ownership is a middle-class program of a modernized and disguised form of capitalism. Common ownership by the producers can be the only goal of the working class.
Workers Councils (1947)
In the present time production is dominated by capital. The capitalist, possessor of money, founded the factory, bought the machines and the raw materials, hires the workers and makes them produce goods that can be sold.
Workers Councils (1947)
In the present and coming times, now the Europe is devastated and mankind is impoverished by world war, it impends upon the workers of the world to organize industry, in order to free themselves from want and exploitation.
Workers Councils (1947)
The Russian economic system is state capitalism, there called state-socialism or even communism, with production directed by a state bureaucracy under the leadership of the Communist Party. The state officials, forming the new ruling class, have the disposal over the product, hence over the surplus-value, whereas the workers receive wages only, thus forming an exploited class.
Lenin as Philosopher (1938)