I agree, if we don’t believe things can get better why continue living? Why even have a political position at all? What’s it all for if we don’t have faith the world can do better?
Also, in my opinion Anarcho-syndicalism as based as it is, isn’t what we really need right now.
While I advocate for unionizing with syndicalist unions like the IWW, it’s not going to provide a long term solution on its own. I see it as one piece of a larger puzzle.
It helps gain some people a bit of breathing room with something closer to living wages, helps educate people of the power they can wield collectively, and pushes the needle forward in regards to realizing a general strike.
I think what holds it back from being able to achieve victory on its own is that a lot if collective effort us expended toward simply gaining back what is stolen by corporations, and less on community prefiguration. It’s also hard to keep members in such a politically diverse umbrella focused on revolutionary class warfare, instead of being satisfied at a certain point of reform or concession from the corporations.
It’d still a useful tool, and one method I haven’t really seen tried or described, is the idea of a worker coop actively funding syndicalist unions for their capitalist competitors to make it easier to compete.
I agree, if we don’t believe things can get better why continue living? Why even have a political position at all? What’s it all for if we don’t have faith the world can do better?
Also, in my opinion Anarcho-syndicalism as based as it is, isn’t what we really need right now.
I agree syndicalism is not the answer today.
While I advocate for unionizing with syndicalist unions like the IWW, it’s not going to provide a long term solution on its own. I see it as one piece of a larger puzzle.
It helps gain some people a bit of breathing room with something closer to living wages, helps educate people of the power they can wield collectively, and pushes the needle forward in regards to realizing a general strike.
I think what holds it back from being able to achieve victory on its own is that a lot if collective effort us expended toward simply gaining back what is stolen by corporations, and less on community prefiguration. It’s also hard to keep members in such a politically diverse umbrella focused on revolutionary class warfare, instead of being satisfied at a certain point of reform or concession from the corporations.
It’d still a useful tool, and one method I haven’t really seen tried or described, is the idea of a worker coop actively funding syndicalist unions for their capitalist competitors to make it easier to compete.
What do we need?