The Mass Strike

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La revoluci n rusa, que tiene sus comienzos en enero de 1905, sorprende a Rosa Luxemburgo en Alemania Durante todo este a o Rosa Luxemburgo se dedica a hacer comprender a los socialistas alemanes el significado de aquellos acontecimientos revolucionarios En diciembre de 1905 decide partir para Varsovia para participar directamente, junto a sus camaradas de la socialdemocracia polaca, en los acontecimientos revolucionarios que conmov an el Imperio zarista Fruto de esta experiencia es su libro Huelga de masas, partido y sindicatos, en el que elabora su doctrina de la huelga de masas Para Rosa Luxemburgo la huelga de masas experimentada en una escala gigantesca, en esta primera revoluci n rusa, ten a el m rito indiscutible de llenar el vac o te rico que el fracaso de la Comuna de Par s y la cr tica de Engels al insurreccionalismo en su introducci n al libro de Marx Las luchas de clases en Francia hab an creado en la concepci n revolucionaria Para ella la huelga de masas no es una simple t ctica que debe ser utilizada por el proletariado para defender sus conquistas, sino, por el contrario, un elemento central de la estrategia revolucionaria Frente a la negaci n kautskiana de la insurrecci n y frente al blanquismo preconizado por los te ricos de la revoluci n de minor as, Rosa Luxemburgo preconiza lo que ella denomina una estrategia de derrocamiento , basada en la pr ctica sistem tica de la huelga de masas. New Download The Mass Strike [ By ] Rosa Luxemburg [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Rosa Luxemburg was a passionate socialist, dedicated to destroying capitalism and creating a society without worker exploitation Before tackling any of her work, it s critical to remember the time when she wrote and the political and historical context Luxemburg wrote The Mass Strike in 1906, a few months after the first failed Russian Revolution, which she saw as an escalation of the socialist movement that built on all previous efforts to end capitalism In 1905 across Europe, capitalism rea Rosa Luxemburg was a passionate socialist, dedicated to destroying capitalism and creating a society without worker exploitation Before tackling any of her work, it s critical to remember the time when she wrote and the political and historical context Luxemburg wrote The Mass Strike in 1906, a few months after the first failed Russian Revolution, which she saw as an escalation of the socialist movement that built on all previous efforts to end capitalism In 1905 acro...For Luxemburg, the increase in strikes that came after the Russian Revolution of 1905 was a sure sign of the revolutionary spirit of the working class She pushed for mass strikes to be an important tool used by the SPD the Social Democratic Party in Germany in undermining capitalism, for it to be a party whose aim is to overthrow the entire political and economic system But her theory became threatening to all bureaucratic machines, first to the SPD and the trade union leaders, and later to For Luxemburg, the increase in strikes that came after the Russian Revolution of 1905 was a sure sign of the revolutionary spirit of the working class She pushed for mass strikes to be an important tool used by the SPD the Social Democratic Party in Germany in undermining capitalism, for it to be a party whose aim is to overthrow the entire political and economic system But her theory became threatening to all bureaucratic machines, first to the SPD and the trade union leaders, and later to the Communist International Luxemburg was not a fan of Lenin s propagation of a highly centralized party structure It isn t that the SPD didn t support and indeed advocate mass strikes, it was that it had to be specifically under certain conditions Contrarily, Luxemberg, in true participatory spirit...A great document of the era One of the real strengths of this work is how thoroughly she grounds her argument in an objective analysis of the historical events in the workers movement leading up to 1905 The central theme is a vindication of the proletariat s ability to enact class struggle on a mass scale independent of trade union bureaucracies and thebureaucratic reformist sect of the social democrats Drawing on the recent history of the workers movement, from the striking textile w A great document of the era One of the real strengths of this work is how thoroughly she grounds her argument in an objective analysis of the historical events in the workers movement leading up to 1905 The central theme is a vindication of the proletariat s ability to enact class struggle on a mass scale independent of trade union bureaucracies and thebureaucratic reformist sect of the social democrats Drawing on the recent history of the workers movement, from the striking textile workers of St Petersburg in 1896 7 onwards, Luxemburg shows the importance of the mass strike as the expression of the organisational power that the proletariat possesses in and of itself Opposing the mechanistic conception entertained by trade union bureaucracies, who held that the mass strike must be precisely regulated with regards to the size of trade union membership, the available funds and the opportune moment for striking and, following...Part argument over the role of trade unions and strikes in a revolution, part documentation of the great upsurge of the Russian Revolution of 1905 Lots of quotes comparing the pre war situation in Germany to Russia that bear a lot of information for Australia today.One of my favourite books Well written and accessible., , , ,, 1907, , , , ,, 1907, 1905 1907, , , ,, , , ,,,No existen dos luchas distintas de la clase obrera, una econ mica y otra pol tica existe s lo una nica lucha de clase que tiende simult neamente a limitar la explotaci n capitalista dentro de la sociedad burguesa y a suprimir la explotaci n capitalista y al mismo tiempo la sociedad burguesa. everybody read this

The Mass Strike
  • 04 November 2018
  • Paperback
  • 96 pages
  • 0906224292
  • Rosa Luxemburg
  • The Mass Strike