Revolutionaries on revolution: participants' perspectives on the strategies of seizing power

Introduction. Pt. I: THE CLASSIC PERSPECTIVES. On the need for revolutionary autonomy and avoidance of compromise / Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

On the need for democratic gradualism / Karl Kautsky

On the dynamics of insurrection / Leon Trotsky. Pt. II: STRIKE STRATEGIES. On the power of the general strike / Big Bill Haywood

Spontaneity, interactions, and the mass strike / Rosa Luxemburg

Problems with the strategy of the general strike / Jean Jaurès. Pt. III: THE ANARCHIST STYLE

PRO AND CON. On the need for individual action / Peter Kropotkin

The case against anachist tactics / George Plekhanow. Pt. IV: GUERRILLA WARFARE. On guerrilla warfare in the Americas / Ernesto Che Guevara

On Guerrilla warfare and the People's War in Vietnam / Vo Nguyen Giap. Pt. V: THE VARIETIES OF REVOLUTIONARY TACTICS. On street demonstrations / Joseph Stalin

From the life of Mother Jones / Mother Jones

On revolution through law and order: use of electoral processes / Frederick Engels

Instructions for an uprising / Auguste Blanqui

The need for partisan warfare / V.I. Lenin

On the need for sound revolutionary tactics / Eugene V. Debs

On the bombing of the King David Hotel / Menachem Begin

On the execution of spies / Tom Barry

The importance of civilian support / Tom Barry

Minimanual of the urban guerrialla / Carlos Marighella.

Pt. VI: THE SOCIAL BASE. The catechism of the revolutionist / Sergei Nechayev

The industrial working class as revolutionary vanguard / Ernest Mandel

Revolution through the rural peasantry / Lin Piao. Pt. VII: SOCIAL CONTROL. The need for human resources and local democracy / Fidel Castro

The need for party discipline and ideological conformity / Mao Tse-tung. Pt. VIII: PROPAGANDA. On propaganda and the significance of the spoken word / Adolf Hitler

The need to oppose stereotyped party writing / Mao Tse-tung. Pt. IX: ORGANIZING THE INSURRECTION. Thus we took Rome / Benito Mussolini

On the success of the August revolution in Vietnam / Truong Chinh

On the art of insurrection / V. I. Lenin

On the organizational infrastructure of the coup / Anwar El Sadat

On institutional replacement and the legitimation of the new government / Michael Collins.