AtDTDA (4) 111 Anarcho-syndicalists

[Bryan Snyder]

I'm a big Chomsky fan and I believe when pinned down during Q&As (at least
in the past, I know he has) proclaimed Anarcho-syndicalism as the proper
form of a society...  very interesting stuff posted.

On 3/14/07, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>                 In the U.S.A., it was almost the Fourth of July, which it
>            meant that tonight, by standing orders, there had to be
>            a shipboard celebration out here, too, like it or not.
>
>                 "Lights and noise, just to keep us hoppin like trained
>            baboons," was Darby's opinion.
>
>                 "Anyone at all educated," protested Lindsay, "knows
>            that Fourth of July fireworks are the patriotic symbols
>            of noteworthy episodes of military explosion in our
>            nation's history, deemed necessary to maintain the
>            integrity of the American homeland against threats
>            presented from all sides by a benightedly hostile world."
>
>                 "Explosion without an objective," declared Miles
>            Blundell, "Is politics in its purest form."
>
>                 "If we don't take care," opined Scientific Officer
>            Counterfly, "folks will begin to confuse us with the
>            Anarcho-syndicalists."
>
>                 "About time," snarled Darby. "I say let's set off our
>            barrage tonight in honor of the Haymarket bomb,
>            bless it, a turning point in American history, and the
>            only way working people will ever get a fair shake
>            under that miserable economic system---through
>            the wonders of chemistry!"
>
>                 "Suckling!" the astounded Lindsay Noseworth
>            struggling to maintain his composure. "But that is
>            blatant anti-Americanism!"
>
>                 "Eehhyyhh, and your mother's a Pinkerton too."
>
>                 "Why you little communistic little---"
>
>            Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which
>            focuses on the labour movement.
>
>            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism
>
>            Anarcho-Syndicalism 101 is a web archive of
>            theoretical and historical texts, articles, image
>            and mp3 files, cultural items and outreach
>            material (otherwise known as propaganda)
>            produced by, and related to, libertarian and
>            autonomous class struggle. Here you will find
>            information on various aspects of anarcho-syndicalist
>            theory and practise, including some texts translated
>            into English for the first time, specifically for this site.
>
>            Given that anarcho-syndicalism is a living praxis with
>            relevance to the real world, and not a dead dogma,
>            this site features criticism of anarcho-syndicalism
>            over a broad ideological spectrum.
>
> http://anarchosyndicalism.net/
>
>            The use of such a long and syllable-intesive word to
>            describe a radical social movement stems from the
>            need in the countries where it first developed to
>            distinguish itself from its reformist counterparts.
>            "Sindicalismo" in Spanish, for example, simply
>            means "Unionism"; the addition of the "Anarco"
>            prefix denotes the libertarian branch of the union
>            movement, or that which aims not only at day-to-day
>            improvements in working conditions under capitalism,
>            but also eventually at a fundamental improvement in
>            the social distribution of decision-making power and
>            access to resources -- not simply "bigger cages and
>            longer chains" -- through social revolution.
>
> http://anarchosyndicalism.net/
>
> (found on the main page, scroll down to the
> highlighted Anarcho-Syndicalist FAQ.)
>
> Anarchosyndicalism by Rudolf Rocker
>
>            [Originally published in 1938 by Martin Secker
>            and Warburg Ltd]
>
>            Anarchism: Its Aims and Purposes; The
>            Proletariat and the Beginning of the Modern
>            Labour Movement; The Forerunners of Syndicalism;
>            The Objectives of Anarcho-Syndicalism; The
>            Methods of Anarcho-Syndicalism; The Evolution of
>            Anarcho-Syndicalism.
>
>            . . . .Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the
>            life of our times, whose adherents advocate the
>            abolition of economic monopolies and of all political
>            and social coercive institutions within society. In place
>            of the present capitalistic economic order Anarchists
>            would have a free association of all productive forces
>            based upon co-operative labour, which would have as
>            its sole purpose the satisfying of the necessary
>            requirements of every member of society, and would no
>            longer have in view the special interest of privileged
>            minorities within the social union. . . .
>
> http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/rocker/sp001495/rocker_as1.html
>
>            Syndicalism and Anarchism
>
>            The relationship between the labour movement and the
>            progressive parties is an old and worn theme. But it is
>            an ever topical one, and so it will remain while there are,
>            on one hand, a mass of people plagued by urgent needs
>            and driven by aspirations - at times passionate but always
>            vague and indeterminate - to a better life, and on the other
>            individuals and parties who have a specific view of the
>            future and of the means to attain it, but whose plans and
>            hopes are doomed to remain utopias ever out of reach
>            unless they can win over the masses. And the subject is
>            all the more important now that, after the catastrophes of
>            war and of the post-war period, all are preparing, if only
>            mentally, for a resumption of the activity which must follow
>            upon the fall of the tyrannies that still rant and rage [across
>            Europe] but are beginning to tremble. For this reason I
>            shall try to clarify what, in my view, should be the
>            anarchists' attitude to labour organisations.
>
> http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6170/malatesta_synd.html
>
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