For example, the Council Communists emphasized the autonomy of the working class vis a vis capital and the party in their political writings but often forgot about the idea when they turned to the theory of capitalist crisis. Much of the material included in this archive has been written as contributions to the elaboration of Marxist theory and pratice. As a byproduct of a long term research project, these archives include whatever materials I have found to be of interest in exploring both the history of thinking about workers autonomy and possible ways of elaborating such theory and pratice. These archives are being made available to the movement to acclerate the circulation of struggle, both from place to place and through time. As many contemporary Marxist historians have discovered the reconstruction of bottom up history, of our history, of the history of our struggles and of our thinking about our struggles, is generally very difficult.
Materials pass from view and are forgotten, or they are lost or destroyed, and so on.
What histories do exist are often written by outsiders with no direct experience or sympathy for the movements described. Little by little we will make available what we can. We would love to acquire such recent material as may already exist in e-text form so that we can make it available. If you know that some of the materials listed in the index ARE already available on the WWW somewhere, please let us know so that we can link to them. The Indexes To facilitate access to the materials in the archive, they have been indexed in several ways.