Access Today Work Is A Crime / De Moker Group: The Rebellious Youth In The Dutch Libertarian Movement Of The Roaring Twenties Composed By Herman J. Schuurman Made Available In Paperback

history and writings of anarchist youth in thes who took the rejection of work seriously,

"We do not want to be destroyed by capitalism, so capitalism will have to be destroyed by us, " A comprehensive retelling of the forgotten story of the De Moker The Sledgehammer group and of thes growing anarchist movement in the Netherlands, this book serves as inspiration and as a warning against how grassroots radical organising is born, maintained, and how quickly it can wither away.

Block the cogs! Occupy the factories! A pretty book lovinglymade by a small press in Amsterdam Roofdruk, and a quick read, It consists of two texts: the first"Work Is a Crime"is apolemic of only a few pages, so the bulk of this book is Els van Daele'srecounting of the Moker story.
The publishers'introduction and van Daele's final section, "Work Is More and More Criminal," both bring the Mokers' uncompromising defiance of work, reformbased struggles, labor unions, . . in relation to the present,

I was lucky enough to find a copy in a mainstream used book store it seems it would be hard to find in the US the only online distributor seems to be Active in the UK.

"That is why we will consciously sabotage every capitalist enterprise, we will be a burden to each and every boss, Where we, rebellious youth, have to work, materials, machines and products have to be unusable, Again and again the gears will jump out of the wheels, the pieces will fly from knives and chisels, the tools most necessary will be nowhere to findwe will tell each other recipes and means.


We do not want to be destroyed by

capitalism, so capitalism will have be destroyed by us, "

Herman Schuurman, the author of the pamphlet Work is a Crime, was one of the cofounders of the Mokergroep The Sledgehammer Group a moker also called vuist 'fist' in working slang is a sort of small beetle which rallied young proletarians who were keen about revolution, very freely organised around the newspaper De Moker which had as a subtitle Opruiend Blad Voor Jonge Arbeiders Agitation Newspaper for Young Workers The Mokergroep shook the workers and libertarian movement during more than four years, from the end ofto the summer of.
The original title of Herman Schuurmans text wasWerken is Misdaad, de Orkaan The Hurricane It was republished by Vitgeverij de Dolle Hond Vitgeverij the Enraged Dog in Amsterdam in.
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