Rudolf Rocker

Rudolf Rocker, 1873-1958
Born in Germany, Rocker was a bookbinder and socialist. He later became an anarcho-syndicalist and moved to London where, though a Gentile, he became a leading figure in the Jewish anarchist movement and edited the weekly anarchist Yiddish paper.

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Rudolf Rocker
Born 25 March 1873 - Mainz, Germany, died 19 September 1958 - New York, USA

Gregori Petrovich Maximov was born on November 10, 1893, in the Russian village of Mitushino, province of Smolensk. After studying for the priesthood, he realised this was not his vocation and went to St. Petersburg, where he graduated as an agronomist at the Agricultural Academy in 1915.

Classic extended work of Rudolf Rocker on anarcho-syndicalism

Ideology of Anarchism

Anarchism is a definite intellecutal current of social thought, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political and social coercive institutions within society.

July 19th was the anniversary of the day on which a gang of militarist adventurers rose against the republican regime in Spain and, with the assistance of outside powers and foreign troops, plunged the country into a bloody war.

The Soviet System or the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Perhaps the reader thinks he has found a flaw in the above title and that the soviet system and the dictatorship of the proletariat are one and the same thing? No. They are two radically different ideas which, far from being mutually complementary, are mutually opposed.

SOME YEARS AGO, shortly after Frederick Engels died, Mr. Eduard Bernstein, one of the most prominent members of the Marxist community, astonished his colleagues with some noteworthy discoveries. Bernstein made public his misgivings about the accuracy of the materialist interpretation of history, and of the Marxist theory of surplus value and the concentration of capital.