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Working Class Politics In The German Revolution (historical Materialsim, Volume 77): Richard Muller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and the Origins of the Council Movement

Ralf Hoffrogge

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Description for Working Class Politics In The German Revolution (historical Materialsim, Volume 77): Richard Muller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and the Origins of the Council Movement Paperback. Series: Historical Materialism. Num Pages: 253 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW; HBTV; JPFF; KNXB2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Richard Muller, a leading figure of the German Revolution in 1918, is unknown today. As the operator and unionist who represented Berlin's metalworkers, he was main organiser of the 'Revolutionary Stewards', a clandestine network that organised a series of mass strikes between 1916 and 1918. With strong support in the factories, the Revolutionary Stewards were the driving force of the Revolution. By telling Muller's story, this study gives a very different account of the revolutionary birth of the Weimar Republic.

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Haymarket Books

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Paperback

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2016

Series

Historical Materialism

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New

Number of Pages

356

Place of Publication

Chicago, United States

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9781608465507

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V9781608465507

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About Ralf Hoffrogge

Ralf Hoffrogge, Dr. phil. (2013), University of Potsdam, has published monographs and articles on German labour history, including Sozialismus und Arbeiterbewegung in Deutschland - Von den Anf ngen bis 1914 (Schmetterling Verlag, 2011). He has just finished a biographical study on the German-Jewish Communist Werner Scholem: Werner Scholem - eine politische Biographie (1895-1940) (Universit tsverlag Konstanz, 2014).

Reviews for Working Class Politics In The German Revolution (historical Materialsim, Volume 77): Richard Muller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and the Origins of the Council Movement

Hoffrogge has done historians of the German Revolution and the Weimar Republic a valuable service by reconstructing the trajectory of a key figure in the revolution (and one of its most important early historians), and by enabling us to see these events through the different focus afforded by a leading protagonist of the workers' councils
Andrew G. Bonnell, ... Read moreLabour History, Australia In this study of Richard M ller's role in the German Revolution, Ralf Hoffrogge sheds light on one of the most important, and yet understudied, aspects of the upheaval: the role of revolutionary shop stewards and workers' councils in the overthrow of the old order and the establishment of the new one...[T]his work provides a much-needed perspective on the German upheaval from the bottom up. It places Richard M ller's long neglected role in the revolution at center stage, and reminds us of the revolutionary promise that was the German Revolution.
William Smalldone, Against the Current Hoffrogge's biography differs from those written about revolutionary icons like Liebknecht or Luxemburg for very practical reasons. The latter were from middle-class backgrounds and used to writing letters and articles offering biographers insights into their political but also private lives. An ordinary worker like M ller did not leave comparable records...Hoffrogge's book is a first-rate invitation to think about a link between Richard M ller and the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and today's still unfocused struggles against imperialist wars and capitalist exploitation
Ingo Schmidt, WorkingUSA The merit of Hoffrogge's contribution is a capacity to translate his extensive research into a wide-ranging historical analysis and narrative of the role of the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and Richard M ller.
Dario Azzellini Ralf Hoffrogge has authored an invaluable addition to the literature of German radicalism by detailing the life of one of the key leaders of the Revolutionary Shop Stewards.
William A. Pelz Ralf Hoffrogge ... explores the complicated relationship between the Stewards and the various socialist political parties with great skill and discusses the emergence of a new kind of socialism amongst M ller and his colleagues, which did not focus on state power and centralization but rather on grassroots democracy and workers' control, sometimes known as council communism.
Dick Geary This study deserves special consideration because it addresses two of the main puzzles of modern German history: how did a supposedly strong state collapse in 1917 and 1918, and how did the SPD subsequently assume power? Already in the 1920s, Arthur Rosenberg pointed out that the Social Democrats followed a dual tactic of propagating but also preventing revolution. By clarifying the roles played in all this by M ller and the shop stewards, Hoffrogge has moved the discussion forward, showing the way in which revolutionary unrest spread and forced the Social Democrats into a much more active role than they had previously adopted. -Central European History The important value of this book is to reveal a thing that is often overlooked in the socialist movement: Whether the theory of the working class political parties can be accepted by the masses. For a long time, in the history of the communist movement, writers stressed, on the one hand, the important role of revolutionary leaders, and on the other the important role of the working class. But who is the link between the two? Richard Muller's experience seems to give the answer to this question.
Ma Jiahong, Contemporary World Socialism Issue No. 2016, No. 119-122. Show Less

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