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Rudolf Rocker

(1873–1958) Historian Germany

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Rudolf Rocker was a historian from Germany, best known for La révolution inconnue, 1917–1921.

Quick Facts About Rudolf Rocker

Born: March 25, 1873
Died: September 19, 1958
Nationality: Germany
Profession: Historian
Notable works: La révolution inconnue, 1917–1921
Known for: Anarcho-Syndicalism, Nationalism and Culture, Pioneers of American Freedom, Max Nettlau
Spouse: Milly Witkop

About Rudolf Rocker

Johann Rudolf Rocker was a German anarchist writer and activist. He was born in Mainz to an artisan family.

Quotes by Rudolf Rocker · Page 2

“And just as the functions of the bodily organs of plants and animals cannot be arbitrarily altered, so that, for example, one…

Freedom

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People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material…

Blessing

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Modern Anarcho-Syndicalism is a direct continuation of those social aspirations which took shape in the bosom of the First International and which…

Alliances

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Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience…

Asceticism

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So long as millions of human beings in every country has to sell their labour-power to a small minority of owners, and…

Buyers

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“From the daily battles against the employers and their allies, the workers gradually learn the deeper meaning of this struggle. At first…

Daily bread

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