Anarcho-syndicalism (also referred to as revolutionary syndicalism) is a theory of anarchism which views revolutionary industrial unionism or syndicalism as a method for workers in capitalist society to gain control of an economy and use that control to influence broader society. Syndicalists consider their economic theories a strategy for facilitating worker self-activity and as an alternative co-operative economic system with democratic values and production centered on meeting human needs.
The basic principles of anarcho-syndicalism are solidarity, direct action (action undertaken without the intervention of third parties such as politicians, bureaucrats and arbitrators) and direct democracy, or workers' self-management. The end goal of anarcho-syndicalism is to abolish the wage system, regarding it as wage slavery. Anarcho-syndicalist theory therefore generally focuses on the labor movement.
Anarcho-syndicalists view the primary purpose of the state as being the defence of private property, and therefore of economic, social and political privilege, denying most of its denizens the ability to enjoy material independence and the social autonomy which springs from it. In contrast with other bodies of thought, particularly with Marxism–Leninism, anarcho-syndicalists deny that there can be any kind of workers' state, or a state which acts in the interests of workers, as opposed to those of the powerful, and posit that any state with the intention of empowering the workers will inevitably work to empower itself or the existing elite at the expense of the workers. Reflecting the anarchist philosophy from which it draws its primary inspiration, anarcho-syndicalism holds to the idea that power corrupts.
“The thing at those group meetings was that there was an anarcho-syndicalist thing going on where you would have these weekly group ... Anarcho-syndicalist communes have a way of burning themselves out.
The third series airs later this year ... It was created by Hwang Dong-hyuk as a critique of contemporary capitalism and was disseminated with the help of Netflix, which is, I believe, a workers’ collective organised along anarcho-syndicalist principles.
“It’s symbolic, but my imprisonment wasn’t symbolic.” ... “My feet were a wreck.” ... Maíllo says that, to his knowledge, no case such as this has been successful but Busquets, a lifelong anarcho-syndicalist, is not deterred ... “It’s about justice ... He added ... .
More than just a playful spot to perch, the work is packed with heady philosophical meaning. “Le grand soir is a turn-of-the-century expression that I borrowed from the anarcho-syndicalists,” Barrada says. “It’s in songs, it’s in literature ... .
... the age of 9, she and her family returned to Barcelona, and in her teens she became involved in anarcho-syndicalist activism in the CNT union, which she was a member of her whole life.
But she feels she must assure us that “if I’d googled harder in my pre-evacuation frenzy, I might have been reminded of the fact that Snyder, a white man, had been criticized, most notably by author ...
Never before have so many people lived in affluence, safety, and good health. And yet, it doesn’t feel that way ... This attitude is lampooned in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, in which an anarcho-syndicalist communist pleads with the assembled knights.
In the musical, Miss Trunchbull is overthrown by a revolution amongst the children (led my Matilda’s psychic powers) and the result is a kind of utopian, anarcho-syndicalist commune, wherein teachers ...
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With carefully researched studies of major revolutionary figures such as the Mexican anarcho-syndicalist Ricardo Flores Magón, who was likely murdered by prison guards in Leavenworth prison in 1922, ...
I am writing this during the last hours of Good Friday... On November 28, 1936, in the middle of the Spanish Civil War, the anarcho-syndicalist militias shot the playwright and comedian Pedro Muñoz Seca, one of the funniest authors of the last century ... .
Andrew Eldritch in 2009. Photo via Wikimedia Commons... ‘Don’t drop your glass,’ warns the barman ... A sheet of blue fire instantly envelops the table. people dive for cover ... The interview took a while to warm up ... Is it? ... Are you still an anarcho-syndicalist?.
