The Sword and the Trowel: Workers Councils and the Rule of the Poor

• In Event: The Politics of Authoritarianism and Freedom

Brief Overview

I make two interventions in the resurgent workers councils literature, arguing that theorists put too much stock in the viability of spontaneous struggle and that they need more specificity on which settings make councils effective sites of democracy

Author

• Amir Fleischmann, University of Michigan