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    Herman Gorter (26 November 1864 – 15 September 1927) was a Dutch poet and Council Communist theorist. He was a leading member of the Tachtigers, a highly...
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    politically and theoretically. Proponents of left communism have included Herman Gorter, Antonie Pannekoek, Otto Rühle, Karl Korsch, Amadeo Bordiga and Paul...
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  • from Zwolle Herman Gorter (1864–1927), Dutch poet and socialist, namesake of the Herman Gorter Prize [de; fy; nl] for poetry Johannes de Gorter [de; ru;...
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    unlike the KPD. The Dutch communist theoreticians Anton Pannekoek and Herman Gorter played an important role within the KAPD; they had, on the model of...
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    the Dutch poet Herman Gorter. They were initially enthusiastic supporters of the Bolsheviks and the Russian Revolution. In 1918, Gorter said that the Bolshevik...
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    following a split in the KAPD, by members of the Essen Faction, including Herman Gorter and Karl Schröder, the Berlin Faction holding that the formation of...
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    support to the Bolsheviks, a position shared by fellow council communist Herman Gorter. He expressed misgivings about the authoritarian tendencies of Leninism...
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    Mei (May) is a poem written by the Dutch poet Herman Gorter and published in 1889. It established Gorter's reputation as a poet and one of the foremost...
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    group with the KAPD, supporting the Communist Workers' International. Herman Gorter replied to Lenin in an open letter, arguing that the smaller numbers...
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  • developed by theorists such as Amadeo Bordiga, Otto Rühle, Anton Pannekoek, Herman Gorter, and Paul Mattick, and continuing with more recent writers, such as...
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