Sabotage

by Emile Pouget, Arturo M. Giovannitti

Sabotage, originally published in 1913, covers the types of sabotage and how the capitalists and workers use it in its various forms. The preface by Kerr highlights the debate in the Socialist Party on “Section Six” – the expulsion of any member from the Socialist Party if that member commits a crime or advocates the use of force or violence. What is Sabotage? Sabotage
A. Any conscious and willful act on the part of one or more workers intended to slacken and reduce the output of production in the industrial field, or to restrict trade and reduce the profits in the commercial field, in order to secure from their employers better conditions or to enforce those promised or maintain those already prevailing, when no other way of redress is open.
B. Any skillful operation on the machinery of production intended not to destroy it or permanently render it defective, but only to temporarily disable it and to put it out of running condition in order to make impossible the work of scabs and thus to secure the complete and real stoppage of work during a strike.

Genres: Politics, Nonfiction

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1911

About the author

Émile Pouget (12 October 1860 in Pont-de-Salars, Aveyron, now Lozère – 21 July 1931 Palaiseau, Essonne) was a French anarcho-communist, who adopted tactics close to those of anarcho-syndicalism. He was vice-secretary of the General Confederation of Labour from 1901 to 1908.

Reviews

[Jerome Berglund · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great stocking stuffer, for youths just entering the workforce and seniors easing out of it alike, and working stiffs toiling ceaselessly smack dab in the center most especially. If everyone read this conscientiously, first off they would understand recent global and local unrest much more comprehensively, but more germanely they would possess the tools to send the machinery causing their economic insecurity and inadequate conditions to a grinding halt once and for all, and have more than the existing snowball's chance at affecting meaningful, lasting changes on a significant scale in the long-term. Like the manifesto or the bread book, this is almost astonishingly short yet the concepts packaged within are essential and far reaching, and could benefit every human being on this earth, past and present, profoundly. So it's small wonder few outside of the I.W.W. wobblies have ever heard of it. A crying shame, to be sure.

A must read for anyone who claims to be progressive, and litmus test to see if they actually are.

[Aloce · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Gonçalo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Estava a correr muito bem até desatar a ser misógino só porque sim

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

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