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Title

Revolutionaries on revolution; participants' perspectives on the strategies of seizing power. Edited by Philip B. Springer [and] Marcello Truzzi.

Author

Springer, Philip B.

Publication

Pacific Palisades, Calif., Goodyear Pub. Co. [1973]

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Additional Authors

Truzzi, Marcello

Description

295 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Revolutions
• Revolutionaries
• revolutions

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 291-295.

Contents

• Introduction. Pt. I: THE CLASSIC PERSPECTIVES. On the need for revolutionary autonomy and avoidance of compromise / Karl Marx and Frederick Engels -- On the need for democratic gradualism / Karl Kautsky -- On the dynamics of insurrection / Leon Trotsky. Pt. II: STRIKE STRATEGIES. On the power of the general strike / Big Bill Haywood -- Spontaneity, interactions, and the mass strike / Rosa Luxemburg -- Problems with the strategy of the general strike / Jean Jaurès. Pt. III: THE ANARCHIST STYLE -- PRO AND CON. On the need for individual action / Peter Kropotkin -- The case against anachist tactics / George Plekhanow. Pt. IV: GUERRILLA WARFARE. On guerrilla warfare in the Americas / Ernesto Che Guevara -- On Guerrilla warfare and the People's War in Vietnam / Vo Nguyen Giap. Pt. V: THE VARIETIES OF REVOLUTIONARY TACTICS. On street demonstrations / Joseph Stalin -- From the life of Mother Jones / Mother Jones -- On revolution through law and order: use of electoral processes / Frederick Engels -- Instructions for an uprising / Auguste Blanqui -- The need for partisan warfare / V.I. Lenin -- On the need for sound revolutionary tactics / Eugene V. Debs -- On the bombing of the King David Hotel / Menachem Begin -- On the execution of spies / Tom Barry -- The importance of civilian support / Tom Barry -- Minimanual of the urban guerrialla / Carlos Marighella.
• Pt. VI: THE SOCIAL BASE. The catechism of the revolutionist / Sergei Nechayev -- The industrial working class as revolutionary vanguard / Ernest Mandel -- Revolution through the rural peasantry / Lin Piao. Pt. VII: SOCIAL CONTROL. The need for human resources and local democracy / Fidel Castro -- The need for party discipline and ideological conformity / Mao Tse-tung. Pt. VIII: PROPAGANDA. On propaganda and the significance of the spoken word / Adolf Hitler -- The need to oppose stereotyped party writing / Mao Tse-tung. Pt. IX: ORGANIZING THE INSURRECTION. Thus we took Rome / Benito Mussolini -- On the success of the August revolution in Vietnam / Truong Chinh -- On the art of insurrection / V. I. Lenin -- On the organizational infrastructure of the coup / Anwar El Sadat -- On institutional replacement and the legitimation of the new government / Michael Collins.

ISBN

• 0876207824
• 9780876207826
• 0876207882 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

72087167

OCLC

• ocm00670745
• 670745
• SCSB-9056770

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library