Sabotage – Emile Pouget (1908)

Defining the Enemy, Disruptive Spaces, Sabotage/Ecotage, Subjectives of Refusal, Tactics of Disruption, The Bourgeoisie, The Workplace, Workers

French anarco-syndicalist Pouget‘s classic work on collective Sabotage as a critical disruptive strategy of the working class. The short treatise was influential in popularizing sabotage as a disruptive tactic for workers in Latin Europe and – through the IWW – in the United States.

Sabotage: A pestiferous epidemic, becoming to the body social of capitalism more dangerous and incurable than cancer and syphilis are to the human body