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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.
Anarcho-syndicalist principles (24min)
Noam Chomsky (2014) "Anarchism and Anarcho Syndicalism"
Anarchism, Libertarian Socialism & Anarcho-Syndicalism (Noam Chomsky)
Monty Python "Anarcho-Syndacalist Commune"
Zizek on the shortcomings of Anarchism and Anarcho-syndicalism
Noam Chomsky - The Relevance of Anarcho-syndicalism (1976)
A (very) quick look at Anarcho-Syndicalism during the Spanish Civil War
Noam Chomsky on Anarcho-syndicalism
Anarcho Capitalism vs Anarcho Syndicalism
History of Anarcho-syndicalist Catalonia (The Spanisch Civil War; documentary)
A back-up, pre-recorded presentation for an IWA web conference.
What is Anarchism? What is Anarcho-syndicalism? Date - January, 2014
"Anarchism, Libertarian Socialism & Anarcho-Syndicalism: Workers' self-management and Democracy from below". Excerpts from "Conversations with History" (2003), "Beyond State Socialism" (2011), "Human Nature: Justice vs. Power" (1971) & "The Relevance of Anarcho-Syndicalism" (1976) "The Relevance of Anarcho-Syndicalism" [full]: audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_x0Y3FqkEI text: http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/19760725.htm "Beyond State Socialism" [full]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVNq8knHGew "Human Nature: Justice versus Power" [full]: televised debate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wfNl2L0Gf8 text: http://www.chomsky.info/debates/1971xxxx.htm "Conversations with History" [full]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ghoXQxdk6s Links: http://libcom.org/ http://www.freedompr...
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian psychoanalytic philosopher, cultural critic, and Hegelian Marxist. In this video Slavoj Zizek talks about the shortcomings of Anarchism and Anarchosyndicalism.
A brief introduction to Anarcho-Syndicalism in the context of the Spanish Civil War. created by Danny Mezzina for the "cross-cultural perspectives" seminar.
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From: The Spanish Civil War: Ep. 5 Inside the Revolution. Focus on the CNT/FAI/AIT faction during the Spanish Civil War and the developments within anarchist Catalonia. Enjoy, redistribute and do comment!
a German anarchist moved to London after being exiled,
from his hometown,
the British parliament only believed in advocating it’s predominancy,
so once again he had to flee,
and as the Nazis took power,
he claimed residence in the states,
a man and his convictions won’t conform in the least bit,
my beliefs won’t be silenced!
So let us not be incomplete,
satisfied put in your place,
the structure of modern control,
a man like rocker felt his writings could influence the movement,