Der zweite Teil von "Anarchismus und Organisation" von Rudolf Rocker ist auch schon online. Ich hatte die große Ehre und Freude den Text auf dem Holzrock Festival lesen zu dürfen, das war so schön.

Im zweiten Teil des 1921 erschienenen Texts geht es weiter um das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen sozialen, organisierten Anarchismus und Geheimorganisationen und die Rolle, die die anarchistischen Presse während des Sozialistengesetzes in Deutschland gespielt hat.

Verfolgung und Repression von Anarchist:innen spielt eine wichtige Rolle, warum die anarchistische Bewegung überhaupt bis heute so geheimnistuerisch unterwegs ist. Aber das erklärt Rocker alles in seinem Text, hört rein: https://anarchieundcello.podbean.com/e/rudolf-rocker-anarchismus-und-organisation-1921-teil2/

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NEUE FOLGE: Rudolf Rocker - Anarchismus und Organisation, 1921

Hinter dem ZAF in St. Imier auf dem Treffen zum 150. Jubiläum der anti-autoritären Internationale habe ich noch den ersten Teil dieses Textes eingelesen, den wir so gemeinsam lesen können.

Rudolf Rocker macht klar, dass der Anarchismus seit der ersten Geburtsstunde sozial und organisiert ist. Er aber durch die Wendungen der Geschichte und brutale Verfolgung und Repression in den Untergrund gehen musste, um zu überleben.

Dadurch verlor sich laut Rocker die Verbindung mit den Massen. Und er bekam diesen konspirativen Charakter, wie wir ihn auch heute noch mehrheitlich feststellen.

Etwas, das Rocker als Mitbegründer des Anarchosyndikalismus in Deutschland, nicht nur als höchst bedauerlich, sondern auch als falsch bezeichnete.

Hört in die Folge rein https://anarchieundcello.podbean.com/e/rudolf-rocker-anarchismus-und-organisation-1921-teil-1/

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Here's the latest excerpt from my ongoing translation of Rudolf Rocker's memoirs. As promised a few weeks ago, this is the one where he is sent to an orphanage. His father died when he was five, and his mother remarried, but then she died when he was around 12 or 13. He continued living with his step-father, along with his younger brother and maternal grandmother, but once his increasingly abusive stepdad started a new relationship, the rest of them were out.

His stories from the orphanage are pretty interesting; this excerpt is just the beginning. Suffice to say that Rocker wasn't exactly a model resident and the guy who ran the orphanage really had his hands full with him. More on that later...

Anyways, enjoy!

https://joseph-k.medium.com/rocker-is-sent-to-an-orphanage-577e79f13f94

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Here's the latest installment of my ongoing translation of Rudolf Rocker's memoirs. In honor of Independence (for White, Land-Owning Men) Day in the US, I've jumped out of sequence and posted an excerpt that I actually translated quite a few years ago. This is taken from a version of the memoirs that was published in Germany in the 1970s, but with lots of stuff cut out (which is why there are ellipses all over this thing). As the title implies, it's about anarchism in France in the early 20th c. and anarchists' demand for something more than bourgeois democracy.

As ever, please note that this is a draft, and may be further edited, revised, or chopped up before the final book version is published at some unknown time in the future by @pmpress. If this seems like a valuable project that you'd like to support, you are welcome to drop me a few bucks at the link below.

Without further ado, here it is: https://joseph-k.medium.com/rocker-on-the-anarchist-movement-in-france-ca28e5cd5f74

Fundraiser: https://gofund.me/37ad4bf6

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Here's the latest installment of my ongoing translation of Rudolf Rocker's memoirs. In honor of Independence (for White, Land-Owning Men) Day in the US, I've jumped out of sequence and posted an excerpt that I actually translated quite a few years ago. This is taken from a version of the memoirs that was published in Germany in the 1970s, but with lots of stuff cut out (which is why there are ellipses all over this thing). As the title implies, it's about anarchism in France in the early 20th c. and their demand for something more than bourgeois democracy.

As ever, please note that this is a draft, and may be further edited, revised, or chopped up before the final book version is published at some unknown time in the future by @pmpress. If this seems like a valuable project that you'd like to support, you are welcome to drop me a few bucks at the link below.

Without further ado, here it is: https://joseph-k.medium.com/rocker-on-the-anarchist-movement-in-france-ca28e5cd5f74

Fundraiser: https://gofund.me/37ad4bf6

#rudolfrocker #anarchism #syndicalism #anarchosyndicalism #Paris #France #translation #memoirs #Proudhon

Here's the latest from my ongoing translation of Rudolf Rocker's memoirs. I missed the past two weeks because I've been pretty overwhelmed with other work, which seems reasonable enough, but I really hate to say I'm going to do something (e.g., post weekly updates) and then not do it. So my apologies to anyone who's actually keeping up with this.

At any rate, this one deals with adolescent Rudolf and his earliest forays into socialist literature in his beloved uncle's apartment in Mainz. This is a short excerpt, but it says some things about the value of a culture that can foster a political imagination and pass on political ideas and experiences from one generation to the next. Both of these functions are often sorely lacking in our current moment (the latter in particular, given the enduring state of inter-generational rancor).

At any rate, enjoy it. As I've said before, this is a draft and may be edited before publication of the actual book (parts may even be deleted altogether). I should be back on schedule next week.

https://joseph-k.medium.com/young-rocker-discovers-socialist-lit-103f2066982c

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Here's the latest from my ongoing translation of Rudolf Rocker's memoirs. I missed the past two weeks because I've been pretty overwhelmed with other work, which seems reasonable enough, but I really hate to say I'm going to do something (e.g., post weekly updates) and then not do it. So my apologies to anyone who's actually keeping up with this.

At any rate, this one deals with adolescent Rudolf and his first discoveries of socialist literature in his beloved uncle's apartment in Mainz. This is a short excerpt, but it says some things about the value of a culture that can foster a political imagination and pass on political ideas and experiences from one generation to the next. Both of these functions are often sorely lacking in our current moment (the latter in particular, given the enduring state of inter-generational rancor).

At any rate, enjoy it. As I've said before, this is a draft and may be edited before publication of the actual book (parts may even be deleted altogether). I should be back on schedule next week.

https://joseph-k.medium.com/young-rocker-discovers-socialist-lit-103f2066982c

#RudolfRocker, #syndicalism, #socialism, #socialdemocrats, #radicalliterature, #anarchism,

Here's the latest installment from my ongoing translation of Rudolf Rocker's memoirs. This section is Rocker’s heartbreaking account of the death of his mother, when Rocker was only about 12 or 13 years old (ca. 1886). Last week, I posted a brief excerpt about the death of his father, when Rocker was five, so at this point, he’s an orphan from a poor family. Next week, I’ll most likely start posting passages from his tumultuous period in an orphanage in Mainz, Germany.

As ever, if you find these useful or interesting, please consider supporting the fundraiser I’ve set up for this project (link below). The source text is a 2,000-page manuscript, and it’s a lot of work. I think it’s interesting and useful, which helps, but it still takes a whole lot of time, so your support would really be helpful.

Last thing: I’d like to mention again that these excerpts are drafts. They will still need to be revised further before publication in book form by @pmpress whenever this is all done. If you notice anything off or suspicious, I’d be grateful if you let me know, but please be nice about it.

https://joseph-k.medium.com/the-death-of-rockers-mother-77ce5bcfe9a

Fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/translation-the-memoirs-of-rudolf-rocker

#RudolfRocker, #anarchism, #anarchosyndicalism

Here's the second excerpt from my ongoing translation of Rudolf Rocker's memoirs. This one is rather short, and it's about his recollection of his father's death when Rocker was five years old.

This project will ultimately be turned into a book to be published by @pmpress. If it looks interesting to you, feel free to throw a few ducats my way (link below). It's a massive undertaking to pare down the 2,000+ manuscript pages Rocker typed up, sculpt it into a meaningful, readable text, and translate it. Any support would be gratefully appreciated.

https://joseph-k.medium.com/the-death-of-rockers-father-b1a4014a7918

https://gofund.me/37ad4bf6

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After years of delays, I am once and for all plowing through what I think will be an fairly important and meaningful project: translating Rudolf Rocker's memoirs for @pmpress.

For the uninitiated, Rocker (1873–1958) was a labor organizer, orator, and leading early theorist of anarcho-syndicalism. His contribution to both anarchism and labor organizing was tremendous, yet the only substantive text about his life that is available in English is The London Years, which is an excellent book, but it only covers a relatively brief period of his life. The project I'm working on will fill in a lot more details about his commitment to the social democrats in his youth (at a time when social democracy was illegal in Germany), his disillusionment with party politics, his discovery of anarchism, and his repeated flight from various countries in Western Europe, among other things.

The full manuscript clocks in at some 2,000+ typewritten pages, so I am studiously reading the whole thing and editing it in the hope of producing a book that will be somewhere between 300-500 pages. So far, I've gotten through about the first 300 pages, or ~15% of the total.

I plan on posting draft excerpts on Medium no less than once a week to keep people up to speed on the progress I'm making, to keep myself accountable, and to hopefully generate some interest in what I think will be a valuable and meaningful text. The first installment is at the link below.

However, this project is a ton of work, so if you've got a few ducats lying around and you don't know what to do with them, I'd be grateful if you would kick in a small donation at the link below.

Please pass it on! More soon...

The first installment:
https://joseph-k.medium.com/introducing-the-memoirs-of-rudolf-rocker-5f8ecb1a1423

The fundraiser:
https://gofund.me/37ad4bf6

#rudolfrocker #anarchism #syndicalism #anarchosyndicalism #Mainz #translation #memoirs

Βιογραφικό ντοκιμαντέρ για τη ζωή και το έργο του Ρούντολφ Ρόκερ, του πιο γνωστού αναρχοσυνδικαλιστή στη γερμανία.

Έργο του Christian Hohoff, 1988, 45 λεπτά. Südwestfunk / SWF 1988.

https://adespotos.org/2020/09/19/rudolf-rocker-documentary/

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