Frases de Rudolf Rocker
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Johann Rudolf Rocker foi um propagandista, escritor e orador anarquista, defensor do sindicalismo revolucionário.

Rocker era de origem judaica, havia nascido na Alemanha e morado em diversos países europeus até imigrar para os Estados Unidos junto com sua companheira e também ativista libertária, Milly Witkop. Apesar de sua simpatia pelo anarcossindicalismo Rudolf Rocker se autoproclamava um anarquista sem adjetivos considerando as diferentes vertentes do pensamento anarquista como "apenas métodos diferentes de economia", nesse sentido o primeiro objetivo para os anarquistas deveria ser "garantir a generalização da liberdade pessoal e social a todos os homens". Wikipedia

✵ 25. Março 1873 – 19. Setembro 1958

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Rudolf Rocker: Frases em inglês

“However fully man may recognise cosmic laws he will never be able to change them, because they are not his work. But every form of his social existence, every social institution which the past has bestowed on him as a legacy from remote ancestors, is the work of men and can be changed by human will and action or made to serve new ends. Only such an understanding is truly revolutionary and animated by the spirit of the coming ages.”

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Rudolf Rocker livro Nationalism and Culture

Fonte: Nationalism and Culture (1937), Ch. 1 "The Insufficiency of Economic Materialism"
Contexto: However fully man may recognise cosmic laws he will never be able to change them, because they are not his work. But every form of his social existence, every social institution which the past has bestowed on him as a legacy from remote ancestors, is the work of men and can be changed by human will and action or made to serve new ends. Only such an understanding is truly revolutionary and animated by the spirit of the coming ages. Whoever believes in the necessary sequence of all historical events sacrifices the future to the past. He explains the phenomena of social life, but he does not change them. In this respect all fatalism is alike, whether of a religious, political or economic nature. Whoever is caught in its snare is robbed thereby of life's most precious possession; the impulse to act according to his own needs. It is especially dangerous when fatalism appears in the gown of science, which nowadays so often replaces the cassock of the theologian; therefore we repeat: The causes which underlie the processes of social life have nothing in common with the laws of physical and mechanical natural events, for they are purely the results of human purpose, which is not explicable by scientific methods. To misinterpret this fact is a fatal self-deception from which only a confused notion of reality can result.

“For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.”

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Rudolf Rocker livro Nationalism and Culture

Fonte: Nationalism and Culture (1937), Ch. 12 "Social Problems of Our Time"

“This Caesarean madness stops at no barrier. Without compunction it rides roughshod over those achievements of the past which have all too often had to be purchased with the heart's blood of the people. It is always ready to smother with brutal violence the last rights and the last liberties which might interfere with its plans for holding all social activities within the rigid forms set by its will. This is the great danger which threatens us today and which immediately confronts us. The success or failure of monopolistic capitalistic power plans will determine the structure of the social life of the near future.”

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Rudolf Rocker livro Nationalism and Culture

Fonte: Nationalism and Culture (1937), Ch. 1 "The Insufficiency of Economic Materialism"

“Modern Anarcho-Syndicalism is a direct continuation of those social aspirations which took shape in the bosom of the First International and which were best understood and most strongly held by the libertarian wing of the great workers' alliance.”

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Rudolf Rocker livro Anarcho-Syndicalism

Fonte: Anarcho-Syndicalism (1938), Ch. 4 "The Objectives of Anarcho-syndicalism"

“Participation in parliamentary politics has affected the Socialist labour movement like an insidious poison. It destroyed the belief in the necessity of constructive Socialist activity and, worst of all, the impulse to self-help, by inoculating people with the ruinous delusion that salvation always comes from above.
Thus, in place of the creative Socialism of the old International, there developed a sort of substitute product which has nothing in common with real Socialism but the name. Socialism steadily lost its character of a cultural ideal, which was to prepare the peoples for the dissolution of capitalist society, and, therefore, could not let itself be halted by the artificial frontiers of the national states. In the minds of the leaders of this new phase of the Socialist movement the interests of the national state were blended more and more with the alleged aims of their party, until at last they became unable to distinguish any definite boundaries between them. So inevitably the labour movement was gradually incorporated in the equipment of the national state and restored to this equilibrium which it had actually lost before.”

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Rudolf Rocker livro Anarcho-Syndicalism

Fonte: Anarcho-Syndicalism (1938), Ch. 4 "The Objectives of Anarcho-syndicalism"

“I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal.”

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Rudolf Rocker

The London Years (1956)

“Ideas do not make a movement; they are themselves merely the product of concrete situations, the intellectual precipitate of particular conditions of life. Movements arise only from the immediate and practical necessities of social life and are never the result of purely abstract ideas. But they acquire their irresistible force and their inner certainty of victory only when they are vitalised by a great idea, which gives them life and intellectual content.”

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Rudolf Rocker livro Anarcho-Syndicalism

Fonte: Anarcho-Syndicalism (1938), Ch. 2 "The Proletariat and the Beginning of the Modern Labour Movement"

“To maintain this state of things we make all our achievements in science and technology serve organised mass murder; we educate our youth into uniformed killers, deliver the people to the soulless tyranny of a bureaucracy, put men from the cradle to the grave under police supervision, erect everywhere jails and penitentiaries, and fill every land with whole armies of informers and spies. Should not such "order," from whose infected womb are born eternally brutal power, injustice, lies, crime and moral rottennesslike poisonous germs of destructive plagues gradually convince even conservative minds that it is order too dearly bought?”

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Fonte: Nationalism and Culture (1937), Ch. 15 "Nationalism — A Political Religion"

“Because of his social position there are left no limits to the power lust of the modern capitalist. He can interfere with inconsiderate egoism in the lives of his fellowmen and play the part of Providence for others. Only when we take into consideration this passionate urge for political power over their own people as well as over foreign nations are we able really to understand the character of the typical representatives of modern capitalism. It is just this trait which makes them so dangerous to the social structure of the future.”

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Rudolf Rocker livro Nationalism and Culture

Fonte: Nationalism and Culture (1937), Ch. 1 "The Insufficiency of Economic Materialism"