Herman Gorter

Gorter, Herman

Dutch poet and council communist who helped found the KAPD and criticised Lenin.

The Lessons of the “March Action”

The Lessons of the “March Action”-Gorter’s Last Letter to Lenin

Dear Comrade Lenin:

When we last parted in November of 1920, your last words on our quite divergent ideas concerning revolutionary tactics in Western Europe were to the effect that neither your opinions nor mine had been sufficiently tested: that experience would soon prove which of the two is correct.

We were in complete agreement on that.

The Politics of Gorter - Pannekoek

Anton Pannekoek responds in 1952 to criticisms of the politics of his late comrade Herman Gorter.

Why we need the Fourth Communist Workers' International - Herman Gorter (1921)

A topical 1921 article by Gorter that appeared in Sylvia Pankhurst's Workers Dreadnought.

The World Revolution, 1924

A 1924 article for Sylvia Pankhurst's Workers Dreadnought.

Open letter to comrade Lenin - Herman Gorter

Gorter responds with radical criticism to the reformist programme advocated by Lenin - i.e., for European communists to work within their Parliaments and existing unions.

The Politics Of Gorter - Anton Pannekoek (1952)

Pannekoek writes in defence of the politics and practice of his late friend and comrade.