Soviet and Comintern Policies Toward the British General Strike of 1926

1953 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morton H. Cowden
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Strong Interest ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
General Strike

The first general strike in the history of England, with its mass labor action, was bound to attract strong interest from the workers' state which proclaimed as its rallying cry: “Workers of All Countries, Unite!” Soviet concern for the British working class followed logically from the active participation of Marx and Engels in the movement, and the continued attention shown by Lenin to this important “section” of the “world proletariat.”

Sorel, Georges (1847–1922)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Social Theorist ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Foundations ◽  
General Strike

The French social theorist Georges Sorel is best known for his controversial work Réflexions sur la violence (Reflections on Violence), first published in 1908. He here argued that the world could be saved from ‘barbarism’ through acts of proletarian violence, most notably the general strike. This, he believed, would not only establish an ethic of the producers but would also serve to secure the economic foundations of socialism. Moreover the inspiration for these heroic deeds would be derived from a series of ‘myths’ that encapsulated the highest aspirations of the working class. More broadly Sorel should be seen as an innovator in Marxist theory and the methodology of the social sciences.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Parfitt
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
American History ◽  
Global History ◽  
Knights Of Labor ◽  
International Context ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Reformers

This chapter introduces the American history of the Knights of Labor, and provides an overview of the ways in which scholars have approached that history. It then places the Knights of Labor within a wider international context in two key ways. First, this chapter locates the Knights as part of a larger, global trend of international organising by early feminists, social reformers, and especially working-class activists. Second, it explores the global history of the Knights themselves and the fragmentary nature of the scholarship concerning it. Finally, this chapter brings together what we do know about the Knights across the world, and provides synopses of the chapters that follow.

Cocytus: Treachery and the Necessity of Expropriation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Clare Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Capitalist Class ◽  
Primitive Accumulation ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Primary Agent

This chapter examines part eight of Capital, where Karl Marx highlights the treachery involved in “primitive accumulation.” Marx's narrative that the history of capitalism's creation is a history of treachery finds its most fitting illustrations in the depths of Dante's Hell, where Cocytus, the frozen wasteland at the bottom of the world, entombs the treacherous in ice. In the final three chapters of Capital, Marx shows how the modern state has come to be dependent upon capital accumulation, and, thus, the primary agent of primitive accumulation. The chapter first reconstructs Marx's account of the origins of the modern proletariat and of the capitalist class in order to harmonize his views on primitive accumulation with his understanding of capitalist exploitation. It then considers Marx's argument against separatism and petty production, and more specifically his contention that the working class can exit capitalism only through a confrontation with the necessity of expropriation.

AL-AHBASH AND WAHHABIYYA: INTERPRETATIONS OF ISLAM

2006 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Kabha ◽  
Haggai Erlich
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Significant Issue ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Countries ◽  
History Of

Islam is a universal religion and culture. Scholars who tend to focus on Islam in specific societies may overlook connections that, over the centuries, were important in shaping various Islamic intercultural dialogs. One case in point is the role of Ethiopia in the history of Islam. Although situated next door to the cradle of Islam, Ethiopia conveniently has been perceived by many Western historians of the Arab Middle East as an African “Christian island,” and as largely irrelevant. In practice, however, the Christian-dominated empire has remained meaningful to all Muslims from Islam's inception. It has also been the home of Islamic communities that maintained constant contact with the Middle East. Indeed, one of the side aspects of the resurgence of political Islam since the 1970s is the emergence in Lebanon of the “The Association of Islamic Philanthropic Projects” (Jamעiyyat al-Mashariע al-Khayriyya al-Islamiyya), better known as “The Ethiopians,” al-Ahbash. Its leader came to Beirut from Ethiopia with a rather flexible interpretation of Islam, which revolved around political coexistence with Christians. Al-Ahbash of Lebanon expanded to become arguably the leading factor in the local Sunni community. They opened branches on all continents and spread their interpretation of Islam to many Islamic as well as non-Islamic countries. This article is an attempt to relate some of the Middle Eastern–Ethiopian Islamic history as the background to an analysis of a significant issue on today's all-Islamic agenda. It aims to present the Ahbash history, beliefs, and rivalry with the Wahhabiyya beginning in the mid-1980s. It does so by addressing conceptual, political, and theological aspects, which had been developed against the background of Ethiopia as a land of Islamic–Christian dialogue, and their collision with respective aspects developed in the Wahhabi kingdom of the Saudis. The contemporary inner-Islamic, Ahbash-Wahhabiyya conceptual rivalry turned in the 1990s into a verbal war conducted in traditional ways, as well as by means of modern channels of Internet exchanges and polemics. Their debate goes to the heart of Islam's major dilemmas as it attracts attention and draws active participation from all over the world.

Vocational Guidance for Delinquent Boys

1965 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 366-374
Author(s):  
Frederick Wiener
Keyword(s):  
Job Demands ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Vocational Guidance ◽  
Delinquent Youth ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Strong Interest ◽  
The World ◽  
Vocational Aspirations ◽  
Delinquent Boys ◽  
Insight Into

Delinquent youth have a strong interest in the world of work. They perceive active participation in the job market as an opportunity to be independent and relatively free from adult controls, but they have little knowledge of job demands. They have misconceptions concerning the qualifications required to obtain certain jobs; their vocational aspirations are often un realistic because of poor insight into their own capacities.

scholarly journals Karl Marx and the Global History of the Civil War: The Slave Movement, Working-Class Struggle, and the American State within the World Market

2021 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 158-185
Author(s):  
Matteo Battistini
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Market ◽  
Constitutional History ◽  
Global History ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
American State

AbstractThis essay stitches together the fragments of Marx's work on the United States that are scattered in newspaper articles, letters, notes, in some digressions in his early writings, in his economic manuscripts and in Capital (1867). The main aim is to show that what we can call a “global history of the Civil War” emerges from his pen: a history that is global not simply in a geographical sense, that is, because it expands the European space beyond the Atlantic and towards the Pacific, but also because of the general meaning it takes on in the history of capitalism. The essay highlights how the Civil War opened the Marxian issue of emancipation, his vision of class struggle and his view of the working class, to the presence of a black proletariat that interacted with the struggle of the white working classes, the latter of which until then had been the main focus of his work. It also highlights how the different and disarticulated voices of labor – slave and free, black and white – on both sides of the Atlantic effected a revolutionary shift in the Civil War: interjecting a “revolutionary turn” into what we can call the “long constitutional history” of the political conflict between North and South that changed the economic and social shape of the nation. More importantly, the essay reconstructs what can be termed the “state moment,” which was entangled with the “long constitutional history” and the “revolutionary turn” of the Civil War. As the transnational calls for emancipation from slavery and wage labor impacted the transnational processes of accumulation of industrial capital, the American state became a player in the world market: its financial and fiscal policies became socially linked to the government of industrial capital. In this sense, as the essay underlines in the conclusion, the “global history of the Civil War” that Marx effectively drafted, outlined the theoretical and political hypothesis that formed the basis of his mature reflection in the pages of Capital: the “emancipation of labour” should be thought of as a global issue, “neither a local nor a national, but a social problem.”

A History of the World Semiconductor Industry

IEE Review ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 355
Author(s):  
D.A. Gorham
Keyword(s):  
Semiconductor Industry ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

The problem of periodization of the history of religion

1997 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Borys Lobovyk
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Religious Development ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Role Of Religion

An important problem of religious studies, the history of religion as a branch of knowledge is the periodization process of the development of religious phenomenon. It is precisely here, as in focus, that the question of the essence and meaning of the religious development of the human being of the world, the origin of beliefs and cult, the reasons for the changes in them, the place and role of religion in the social and spiritual process, etc., are converging.

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