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This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. April Learn how and when to remove this template message. Indiana UP, , vol. The Sources of the Faust Tradition: From Simon Magus to Lessing. Servant of Two Masters. Farrar, Straus And Giroux, , The Myth of the Magus. Nordic Institute of Folklore, University of Turku, , pp. The Life and Times of a Renaissance Magician. The Lives of the Great Composers 3rd ed. Culture and Society in France - Retrieved from " https: Christian mythology Satan Demonology Literary techniques Witchcraft in folklore and mythology Fictional characters who have made pacts with devils Deal with the Devil.

After Jesus rejects the devil's offers, he embarks on his travels as the Messiah [3] see Temptations of Christ. The predecessor of Faustus in Christian mythology is Theophilus "Friend of God" or "Beloved of God" the unhappy and despairing cleric, disappointed in his worldly career by his bishop, who sells his soul to the devil but is redeemed by the Virgin Mary. A ninth-century Miraculum Sancte Marie de Theophilo penitente inserts a Virgin as intermediary with diabolus , his "patron", providing the prototype of a closely linked series in the Latin literature of the West.

In the tenth century, the poet nun Hroswitha of Gandersheim adapted the text of Paulus Diaconus for a narrative poem that elaborates Theophilus' essential goodness and internalizes the seduction of good and evil, in which the devil is magus , a necromancer.

As in her model, Theophilus receives back his contract from the devil, displays it to the congregation, and soon dies. The term "a pact with the devil" is also used metaphorically to condemn a person or persons perceived as having collaborated with an evil person or regime.

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An example of this is the Nazi-Jewish negotiations during the Holocaust , both positively [18] and negatively. However, Rudolf Kastner was accused of negotiating with the Nazis to save a select few at the expense of the many. According to some, the term served to inflame public hatred against Kastner, culminating in his assassination. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the Italian film, see Pact with the Devil film. For the album by the rock band Lizzy Borden, see Deal with the Devil album. For other uses, see Deal with the Devil disambiguation.

The Sources of the Faust Tradition: In Yemen , thousands of people took the streets in a general strike in to protest President Ali Abdullah Saleh. In Algeria , public sector workers have mounted a general strike for higher wages and improved working conditions. In February, , General Douglas MacArthur , as Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in Japan, banned a planned general strike of 2,, government workers, stating that "so deadly a social weapon" as the general strike should not be used in the impoverished and emaciated condition of Japan so soon after World War II.

Japan's labour leaders complied with his ban. In the pamphlet The Social General Strike , published in Chicago in , Stephen Naft had previously acknowledged the same four levels of the general strike:. Then it is used as: General Strike of a city, i. The profoundest conception of the General Strike, however, [is] the one pointing to a thorough change of the present system: Naft's pamphlet translated from the German language traced existing sentiment for this goal of the general strike to proletarians of Spain and Italy.

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The premise of The Social General Strike is that no matter how powerfully the working class organises itself, it still has no significant power over a congress, or the executive which has military force at its beck and call. Therefore, a general strike called by an "energetic and enthusiastic" minority of workers, may be embraced by the mass of workers who remain unorganised.

The Social General Strike noted the complexity of modern industry, identifying the many stages in the manufacturing process and geographic dispersal of related manufacturing locations as weaknesses of the industrial process during any labour dispute. The immense advantage of the general strike is that it begins entirely lawfully and without any danger for the workers, and for this reason thousands will take part In , in a study of revolutionary socialism , Milorad M. As a group, the Socialists of the period repeatedly rejected the general strike as a tactic; [33] however, a number of Socialist leaders advocated its use for one reason or another.

Drachkovitch perceived the first two concepts, the socialist-friendly general strike for political rights within the system, and the general strike as a revolutionary mechanism to overthrow the existing order—which he associated with a "rising anarcho-syndicalist movement"—as in conflict.

In Belgium a general strike movement, broken off in one instance without damage to the organizing forces, eventually led to universal suffrage; in Holland a general strike collapsed with disastrous consequences; in Sweden, a general strike was conducted and terminated with disciplined order but did not attain the desired results. In Italy, general strikes had been both socially effective and politically unproductive. On the other hand, the events of January in Russia once more seemed to underscore the suitability of the general strike as a decisively revolutionary action.

Orthodox labour unions typically act as a representative from the workers to employers. They bargain over wages, hours, and working conditions. Other labour organisations typically bargain for the same wage, hour, and conditions improvements, but embrace a critique of capital as establishing and maintaining a permanent working class and an elite ruling class. These unions therefore advocate a permanent solution to the circumstances of strikes, injunctions, and crossing other workers' picket lines.

In brief, these unions are radical in their orientation, and may accurately be described as revolutionary. One labour movement philosophy of "peaceful revolution " is known as syndicalism. Its tactical method is the strike—the regular strike for protecting the material welfare of the workers, and the general strike as a means to accomplish the desired permanent solution to industrial strife.

One variation of syndicalism is anarcho-syndicalism , which in comparison to syndicalism develops rank and file power with democratic traditions to maintain worker control over union leadership. Technically, the IWW is described as a union that practices revolutionary industrial unionism. Some consider the revolutionary industrial unionism of the IWW to be a form of anarcho-syndicalism. In form, structure and objective, the I. The IWW began to fully embrace the general strike in The capitalists have wealth; they have money.

They invest the money in machinery, in the resources of the earth. They operate a factory, a mine, a railroad, a mill.

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Criticism of capitalism Post-capitalism Libertarian socialism Criticism of wage labour Labour power Revisionism. General strikes have been done in order to seek "democracy, political representation and the provision of basic education and healthcare". The Code of Practice on Industrial Action Ballots and Notices, and sections 22 and 25 of the Employment Relations Act , which concern industrial action notices, commenced on 1 October According to traditional Christian belief about witchcraft , the pact is between a person and Satan or a lesser demon. For example, supporters of industrial unions , which have sought to organize entire workplaces without regard to individual skills, have criticized craft unions for organizing workplaces into separate unions according to skill, a circumstance that makes union strikebreaking more common.

They will keep that factory running just as long as there are profits coming in. When anything happens to disturb the profits, what do the capitalists do? They go on strike, don't they? They withdraw their finances from that particular mill. They close it down because there are no profits to be made there. They don't care what becomes of the working class. But the working class, on the other hand, has always been taught to take care of the capitalist's interest in the property.

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Bill Haywood believed that industrial unionism made possible the general strike, and the general strike made possible industrial democracy. These strikes are also good training to help workers educate themselves about the class struggle, and about what it will take to execute an eventual general strike for the purpose of achieving industrial democracy. According to labour historian Philip S. Foner , the Wobbly conception of industrial democracy is intentionally not presented in detail by IWW theorists; in that sense, the details are left to the "future development of society".

Industrial democracy will be "a new society [built] within the shell of the old. Issues such as production and distribution would be managed by the workers themselves. In the IWW called for a three-day nationwide walkout—in essence, a demonstration general strike—to protest the execution of anarchists Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

On March 18, , the Industrial Workers of the World website www. The year saw a number of general strikes throughout North America, including two that were considered significant—the Seattle General Strike , and the Winnipeg General Strike. The official report of these proceedings described the convention as the "largest and in all probability the most important Convention ever held" by the organisation, in part for having engineered the "overwhelming defeat of the so-called Radical element" via crushing a " One Big Union proposition", and also for defeating a proposal for a nationwide general strike, both "by a vote of more than 20 to 1.

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