The Mass Strike: The Political Party and the Trade Unions, and the Junius Pamphlet

by Rosa Luxemburg

Book Overview

"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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061315834
• ISBN13: 9780061315831
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Being a part of real life struggles

Marx once wrote to a friend that he did not feel his contribution was the discovery of the material underpinnings of politics nor the existence of class conflict but rather identifying the central role that the working class was to play in the struggle toward socialism. Luxemburg felt that the role of a party was to support the spontaneous movement of the working class toward that goal. For her spontaneous did not mean impulsive as in unplanned but rather organic, beyond the capacity of a party to predict, but which a party must engage, educate, and support. A quick and good read.