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Rudolf Rocker
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Rudolf Rocker (25 March 1873 – 19 September 1958) was a German historian, writer, economist, and journalist. Born in Mainz, he was a citizen of Germany and spoke German and Yiddish. His political ideology was anarchism, specifically within the movements of anarcho-syndicalism and social anarchism. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, the Free Workers' Union of Germany, and the International Workers' Association – Asociación Internacional de los Trabajadores. Rocker participated in the International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam and resided in Paris, Mainz, London, and Berlin. He died in New York City.
Rocker’s writings were published in German and Yiddish. Notable works include *The objectives of anarcho-syndicalism*, *The methods of anarcho-syndicalism*, *Nineteen-seventeen*, *Pioneers of American freedom*, and *Die Entscheidung des Abendlandes*. His archives are held at the International Institute of Social History. He was married to Milly Witkop.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 25 March 1873
- Died
- 19 September 1958
- Works
- 93
Top works
- Artistas y rebeldes
- La maldición del practicismo
- Marx et l'anarchisme
- Die Prinzipienerklärung des Syndikalismus
- Der Kampf ums tägliche Brot
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 86
- Total plays
- 558
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
· 1997 · cited 16,327x
- [14] Analysis of total phenols and other oxidation substrates and antioxidants by means of folin-ciocalteu reagent
· 1999 · cited 14,054x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2021 · cited 12,130x
- World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated
· 2006 · cited 9,905x
- The use of partial least squares path modeling in international marketing
· 2009 · cited 7,145x
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Quotes
- “I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal.”
- “The will to power which always emanates from individuals or from small minorities in society is in fact a most important driving force in history. The extent of its influence has up to now been regarded far too little, although it has frequently been the determining factor in the shaping of the whole of economic and social life.”
- “For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.”
- “Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out of that comes an ever growing diversity of creative activity. Every successful piece of work stirs the desire for greater perfection and deeper inspiration; each new form becomes the herald of new possibilities of development.”
- “Ideas do not make a movement; they are themselves merely the product of concrete situations, the intellectual precipitate of particular conditions of life. Movements arise only from the immediate and practical necessities of social life and are never the result of purely abstract ideas. But they acquire their irresistible force and their inner certainty of victory only when they are vitalised by a great idea, which gives them life and intellectual content.”
- “Modern Anarcho-Syndicalism is a direct continuation of those social aspirations which took shape in the bosom of the First International and which were best understood and most strongly held by the libertarian wing of the great workers' alliance.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Johann Rudolf Rocker , March 25, 1873, Mainz , Grand Duchy of Hesse , German Empire
- Died
- September 19, 1958 (1958-09-19) (aged 85), Mohegan Colony , New York , U.S.
- Notable work
- Nationalism and Culture Pioneers of American Freedom
- Political party
- Social Democratic Party
- Spouse
- Milly Witkop
- Children
- Fermin Rocker
- Parent s
- Georg Philipp Rocker, Ann Naumann
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Johann Rudolf Rocker ( German: [ˈʁɔkɐ]; March 25, 1873 – September 19, 1958) was a German anarchist writer and activist. He was born in Mainz to an artisan family.
His father died when he was a child, and his mother when he was in his teens, so he spent some time in an orphanage. As a youth he worked as a cabin boy on river boats and was then apprenticed as a typographer. He became involved in trade unionism and joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) before coming under the influence of anarchists such as Mikhail Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin. With other libertarian socialist youth, he was expelled from the SPD, and his anarchist activism led to him fleeing Germany for Paris, where he came into contact with syndicalist and anarchist ideas and practices. In 1895, he moved to London. Apart from brief spells in Liverpool and elsewhere, he remained in East London for most of the next two decades, acting a key figure in the Yiddish-language anarchist scene there, including editing the Arbeter Fraynd periodical, publishing the key thinkers of anarchism, and organising strikes in the garment industry. In London, he formed a life partnership with Milly Witkop, a Ukraine-born anarchist from a Jewish background. During World War I, he was interned as an enemy alien and at the end of the war he was deported to the Netherlands.
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