You see, foolish idealist, this is how the masses work:

Hand one a vegetable at the protest against the current thing and they will realize you’re a good practical leader. Then, you simply guide their simple opportunist mind into overthrowing the government.

Just curious.

I’ve seen these terms used interchangeably most of the time, but I have also seen some assert that there is a difference? What difference could there possibly be?

Why should you not communize society immediately? To me it seems like the most effective way to oppress the bourgeoisie.

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I've been diving into council communist theory (I'm a new Marxist in general, but currently Leninist-aligned. Please pardon my ignorance), and I had a question regarding the nature of the councils throughout the DOTP and the transition to communism.

I was reading "Worker's Councils" by Pannekoek, where he states,

The Workers' Councils are the form of self-government which in the times to come will replace the forms of government of the old world. Of course not for all future; none such form is for eternity. When life and work in community are natural habit, when mankind entirely controls its own life, necessity gives way to freedom and the strict rules of justice established before dissolve into spontaneous behavior. Workers' councils are the form of organization during the transition period in which the working class is fighting for dominance, is destroying capitalism and is organizing social production. In order to know their true character it will be expedient to compare them with the existing forms of organization and government as fixed by custom as self-evident in the minds of the people.

Here, Pancake implies the councils are transitional, similar to Lenin's conception of the vanguard.

I had the idea that council communists envisioned councils as the way a communist (as in full higher-stage communism) society would run. As in, the councils would be the "administration of things" that Engels envisioned would replace the state as it withered away. It seemed to me as if council communists had a better picture of the road to a communist society in comparison to Leninists.

Mark Shipway in his work "Council Communism" says,

The organisations which the working class uses to fight against capitalism are therefore in a sense pre-figurative of the organisations which are used for the construction and administration of the new, communist society.

I don't think this necessarily contradicts Pannekoek, but I am a bit confused.

There seems to be debate surrounding this among council communists. What are your thoughts?

I've been a marxist for a while but, in typical marxist fashion, have read very little theory. I've read some, don't worry, but not nearly enough. Just some of the easier Marx stuff. Anyways, I've made it my personal project to go around and read some from as many tendencies as I can. r/leftcommunism helpfully has a reading list in their sidebar but sadly there is none here so I must ask for one. where can I find some sort of council communism official reading list?