Revolutionary Fragments

The mass strike is a universal form of the proletarian class struggle resulting from the present stage of capitalist development and class relations. The mass strike is the first natural, impulsive form of every great revolutionary struggle of the proletariat and the more highly developed the antagonism is between capital and labour, the more effective and decisive must mass strikes become. The chief form of previous bourgeois revolutions, the fight at the barricades, the open conflict with the armed power of the state, is in the revolution today only the culminating point, only a moment on the process of the proletarian mass struggle.

—Rosa Luxemburg on the mass strike