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Rudolf Rocker

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Johann Rudolf Rocker was a German anarchist writer and activist, born in Mainz to an artisan family. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Year
1873 1
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Political Theory 2
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1. Wikidata: Rudolf Rocker
  • Wikidata Q213562, class allow-list match, case-insensitive label variant (w-bbfill-smallsix2-0926/resolve_ci.ps1)
  • Wikidata Q213562, P569 (w-bbfill-smallsix3-0926)
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2. Rudolf Rocker (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section
    Johann Rudolf Rocker (German: [ˈʁɔkɐ]; March 25, 1873, September 19, 1958) was a German anarchist writer and activist.
  • Lead, subfield political-theory
    Johann Rudolf Rocker (German: [ˈʁɔkɐ]; March 25, 1873, September 19, 1958) was a German anarchist writer and activist.
  • Practices Studied: Capitalism, Article text
    He applies this model to human history, analyzing the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and modern capitalist society, and to the history of the socialist movement.
  • Practices Studied: The State, Article text
    Rocker decried nationalism as the religion of the modern state and opposed violence, championing instead direct action and the education of the workers.
  • Shaped By: Anarchism, Lead
    Johann Rudolf Rocker (German: [ˈʁɔkɐ]; March 25, 1873, September 19, 1958) was a German anarchist writer and activist.
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