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Anarcho-syndicalism is a theory of anarchism that holds rank-and-file unions to be the greatest way for workers to exercise their power in a capitalist economy. The aim of anarcho-syndicalism is to bring the capitalist economy to a halt through mass refusal of work (the general strike) and for us to then occupy our workplaces in order to run them ourselves, according to socialist principles (i.e. production for need, not profit).
Anarcho-syndicalism is based on the key principles of:
The revolutionary trade unions that are formed in this tradition adhere to these principles. While syndicalism is a product of the labour movement, its basic aims and principles can be applied to other forms of class struggle outside of the workplace.
At its heart, anarcho-syndicalism recognizes that the working class, as the class that produces all wealth, holds the most power. Without our labour capitalism would cease to function. If we refuse to work for our bosses they will not be able to extract profit from our labour, which is how capitalism survives and functions. Anarcho-syndicalism is about making workers conscious of their power and exercising that power with the aim of creating a new world, free from bosses, wage slavery and work.
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How do you think an economy in an anarchist society would work? I think the best way would be to find out the total demand at any point of time and produce accordingly with feedback loops. the currently I made this equation on how it may be done, but I am still working on adding some more complexities like imports used in production or capital (as in Means of production) accumulating. But currently this is what I think we can do. find the total demand at some time, and inform trade unions in each industry how much needs to be produced and have them make contracts feely with others on supplying these products.
Here X is the total production in some time at the nth step. A is the Leontief matrix. d is the estimated demand at some time. Delta P (i) is the change in price from equilibrium at some time t_n and P_0 is the the equilibrium price calculated by the average indirect and direct labor used in production. S is the supply to stores for final demand. The first term is the initial plan, the second is feedback from stores on demand, the last one is the difference between the planned production and actual production. This whole system tries to minimise the use of human labor in production while meeting needs and helps give accurate information on production of each good needed by society.
Note: I made a small mistake the "I-A" is supposed to be "(I-A)^-1" and the "N" is supposed to be the total number of industries planned, Epsilon^(i) is the elasticity for each industry's products when sold for consumption.
Everyone knows the story of the king who flooded his land with gold. Gold got so common that prices skyrocketed. It's not a genius concept.
What prevents inflation, if the flood of money flows to the workers?
My solution would be price controls. I firmly believe in price controls, especially for rent and food. But that requires a strong government. Aren't y'all opposed to such a government?
Is that the go-to solution? Do you think inflation would be a problem?
I want to make an analysis but I need more knowledge.
I am an electrician, I work for a non-union company the vast majority of us workers are against unionization, mostly due to the bosses using anti-union propaganda at any mention of the union. I have been vocally obstinate to this rhetoric, I am beginning to see that I may be able to make progress at dispelling this rhetoric by my actions and small subtle remarks at why unionization only stands for our benefit.
I am currently working towards making my crew as horizontally lead as I currently know how. I am seeing great success. I'm just looking for advice and ideas on how others may have been able to promote anarchosyndaclist methods to their individual trades and lives.
I have been taking notes on why people seem so against unionization. The most of the guys it comes down to licensing, in my county we do not have to have apprenticeship nor journeyman licenses. That is seemingly to be the greatest concern. In my opinion a lot of our guys are scabs, and take very little pride in their work, let alone proper care. With obstacles like these what are the steps I can take towards promoting unionization?
I take extreme care for my work and overall finished product, and I've seen that already bleeding into the work that the guys I end up overseeing. The guys that put out shoddy work on other jobs don't seem to have that same attitude with me. I attribute this to my horizontal approach rather than top down. I see an overall improvement on overall attitude as well. I also see more openness towards discussing unionization when my guys and I are alone away from the other forman and higher ups. Is there more that I can do?
It's so big that some may not want to believe it. Yet, it reflects well the times of triumphant, ruthless capitalism we live in today: a registered trademark will ban the CNT-AIT from using the CNT acronym and a number of symbols, including the red and black diagonal flag. These symbols will now be the exclusive property of CNT-CIT (or CNT®).
An initial set of seventeen unions (sixteen from CNT-AIT and the independent CNT union of Vigo) were ordered to pay €2,000 each in moral damages to CNT®CIT, whose claims were deemed legitimate by the “Audiencia Nacional” court, even though the amount initially demanded by CNT®CIT (€50,000 per union) was reduced by the "justice" system.
The day before the trial, seventeen other entities (unions and local federations of CNT-AIT) were similarly accused by CNT®CIT and face the same penalties. This second wave of trials is set for October 29. Thirty-four collectives already... for an organization supposedly non-existent! And there may be a third wave, as some entities have escaped the inquisition.
I've heard of it a lot recently, but I can't figure out what it is,so I've decided to ask you guys.
"I take no pleasure in showing up Bookchin’s contradictions and personal revisionism. It is a shame that he ended such a fruitful political life by writing such rubbish. Hopefully, his post-anarchist work (along, of course, with his silly « libertarian municipalism » fetish that became his undoing) will be ignored in favor of his real, important and still relevant contributions to libertarian theory."