On this day in 1874, the Dresden Council Communist and Pedagogue Otto Rühle was born. A close friend of Karl Liebknecht, he alongside him was one of the only two Reichstag deputies to vote against war credits in 1915. Later he would be involved in the foundation of the AAUE.

Post-mortem photo of August Müller aka Dudo. A tram worker and Council Communist, Dudo was the commander of the Ruhr Red Army and its most famous combat leader. Unfortunately, he was martyred on 1st of April 1920 in Wesel while fighting against the Kapp Putsch and the Freikorps.

Hans Manfred Bock on the importance of Council Communism for the german radicals of 68. Especially for Hans-Jürgen Krahl, who through his theoretical foundation of “Lukács, Council Communism and Anarchism” sought to reconstruct a non-dogmatic revolutionary theory and praxis.

“Socialism is no illusion, but a way of behavior. To ask whether socialism is possible is to ask wrongly. It is better to ask whether socialists are possible, and if they are, the cause is never lost.”

Excerpts from MN Roy's Memoirs.

Not the only Indian who was close to Council Communism during that period btw. Around 1922, there was a small group of Indians in Berlin led by MPT Acharya who were associated with the KAI and through whom the KAPD established contacts in Mysore and parts of Southern India.

Bulgarian Council Communists were somehow more terroristic than the KAPD.

Homemade explosives used by KAPD's insurgents and terrorists.

Apparently the KAPD had contacts in Northwest Africa through someone called Ali Baset Salim (also a leader of the KAI), according to the Collection Henk Canne-Meijer at IISG.🫠

#OtD 23 Oct 1874 German left communist Otto Rühle was born. Chairman of the Dresden Workers and Soldiers Council in the German Revolution and later KAPD delegate to the Comintern, he also wrote the famous pamphlet 'The Revolution Is Not a Party Affair' stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9602/o…

Fritz Riwotzki. Leader of the Rote Kämpfer in Dortmund.

Council Communists Meet Philosophers from Heidelberg – The Pre-History of Critical Theory in 1920s Germany. historicalmaterialism.org/council-commun…

My political journey: Indoist → Indoist → Indoist → Indoist

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Max Hermann-Neiße. Council Communist, Expressionist Writer and KAPD member.

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