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Johann Rudolf Rocker (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.
Rudolf Rocker (* 25. März 1873 in Mainz; † 19. September 1958 nahe Crompond, Westchester County) war deutscher Anarchist und Anarchosyndikalist. Der gelernte Handwerker wurde trotz seiner nichtjüdischen Herkunft Autor, Herausgeber und Verleger jiddischer Zeitungen und Zeitschriften.
Apr 26, 2009 · A classic book by the anarchist thinker Rudolf Rocker, who introduces the ideas and history of anarcho-syndicalism, a form of anarchism based on workers' unions. The book covers topics such as anarchism's aims and purposes, the class struggle, the forerunners of syndicalism, the objectives and methods of anarcho-syndicalism, and its evolution.
The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual, social and political oppression, which finds its highest expression in the philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity.
Apr 26, 2009 · A collection of writings by Rudolf Rocker, a German-Jewish anarchist and syndicalist. Topics include anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, Marxism, nationalism, culture, and more.
Of the latter, one came to bring social regeneration to the outcast Jew. He was Rudolf Rocker, the German anarchist gentile, who devoted nearly twenty years of his life to organizing and inspiring the most despised of East End plebs—the immigrant Jewish tailors.
Rudolf Rocker was born on March 25, 1873, in the ancient Rhine city of Mainz. He refers with a touch of pride to the fact that the city of his birth was founded by the Romans in 57 B.C., and that it was the birthplace of Johann Gutenberg and the site of his first printing house.
