Against the Grain

Luxemburg and Gramsci on the Mass Strike

In the eyes of the Marxist thinker Rosa Luxemburg, the mass strike lay at the center of revolutionary strategy. What did Antonio Gramsci, another important radical theorist, think of the mass strike, and of revolution? Daniel Egan argues that Luxemburg’s theory of the mass strike is consistent with Gramsci’s emphasis on protracted struggle.

Socialism and Democracy

Daniel Egan, The Dialectic of Position and Maneuver: Understanding Gramsci’s Military Metaphor Brill, 2016

 

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