anarcho-syndicalism

is a conception of a very organized society, but organized from below by direct participation at every level, with as little control and domination as is feasible, maybe none.

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. And then, you know, ideas are worked out about how exactly that should manifest itself, but I think that is the core of anarcho-syndicalist thinking. I mean it's not at all the general image that you described people running around the streets, you know, breaking store windows but [anarcho-syndicalism] is a conception of a very organized society, but organized from below by direct participation at every level, with as little control and domination as is feasible, maybe none. http://goo.gl/rR5TFO

is a variety of anarchism concerned primarily producing a free and democratic society through control over work, over the work place, over production... that is, working people ought to control the enterprises in which they work, along with communities, so they should be associated with one another in free associations.

is grounded in the notion that a free society requires that working people control their own work, its conditions, and the enterprises in which they work in communities of free associations.

Anarcho-syndic alism took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, 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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anarcho syndicalism