multi-class nature of global resistance

for the wise men (women) of wsn this is an "old hat"; for me it's still
interesting: the concept of "resistance" is broader than the concept of
"class struggle". "Resistance" tends to be multi-class. Example (1)
resistance against the present global regime; (2) resistance against
Milosevic in Yugoslavia, (3) resistance against the Nazi regime in Germany.
The
following web site lists literature on that resistance for the period
1933-1945:
http://www.kulturbox.de/gdw/literatur

The following categories of resistance groups are listed, showing a
multi-class, multi-ideological pattern:

A. resistance by the workers movement
A1  Communist resistance
A2 Social-democratic and socialist resistance
A3 Labour union resistance
A4 Resistance by the Catholic labour movement

B. resistance based on Christian faith
B1 Protestant church
B2 Catholic church
B3 Other religious communities

C. resistance based on political conviction
C1 Liberalism
C2 Political conservatism
C3 Political Catholicism
C4 the "Kreisauer Kreis"

D Attempted coups and military opposition 1937-1943
E Attempted coup 20 July 1944

F resistance during WWII
F1 refusal within National Socialism
F2 Women's resistance
F3 Youth opposition and resistance
F4 the "Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland"
F5 "Weisse Rose"
F6 the group Harnack et al
F7 exiles
F8 help for the persecuted
F9 resistance by Jews
F10 desertion and conscientious objectors

One can, perhaps, generalize that a resistance movement tends to be
multi-class, multi-ideological. Class struggle can, theoretically, also be a
multi-class struggle, especially if one thinks in worldwide terms. Of
course, that does not jibe with certain other theories.

Gernot Kohler
Oakville, Canada