Anarcho-Syndicalism Doctrine

An Anarcho-Syndicalism Doctrine is an anarchist doctrine that emphasizes empowerment of worker (e.g. to gain control of an economy and, with that control, influence broader society.)

• Context:
  • It can be held by an Anarcho-Syndicalist.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Anarcho-Capitalist.
• See: Revolutionary Industrial Unionism, Syndicalism, Capitalist Society, Proletariat, co-Operative Economics, Solidarity, Direct Action, Direct Democracy, Workers' Self-Management, Wage Slavery.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism Retrieved:2014-11-4.
  • 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, with that control, 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 labour 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 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.

2013

• http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/noam-chomsky-kind-anarchism-i-believe-and-whats-wrong-libertarians
  • Noam Chomsky: … Anarcho-syndicalism is a particular variety of anarchism which was concerned primarily, though not solely, but primarily with control over work, over the work place, over production. It took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, [that] they ought to control the enterprises in which they work, along with communities, so they should be associated with one another in free associations, and … democracy of that kind should be the foundational elements of a more general free society.

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