The Mass Strike

Rosa Luxemburg

2015119 pages

"Almost all works and pronouncements of international socialism on the subject of the mass strike date from the time before the Russian Revolution [of 1905], the first historical experience on a very large scale with the means of struggle. It is therefore evident that they are, for the most part, out-of-date. Their standpoint is essentially that of Engels who in 1873 wrote as follows in his criticism of the revolutionary blundering of the Bakuninists in Spain"Excerpt From: Rosa Luxemburg. "The Mass Strike." iBooks.

Rosa Luxemburg Contents I. The Russian Revolution, Anarchism and the General Strike II. The Mass Strike, A Historical and Not an Artificial Product III. Development of the Mass Strike Movement in Russia IV. The Interaction of the Political and the Economic Struggle V. Lessons of the Working-Class Movement in Russia Applicable to Germany VI. Co-operation of Organised and Unorganised Workers Necessary for Victory VII. The Role of the Mass Strike in the Revolution VIII. Need for United Action of Trade Unions and Social Democracy