Download or read book Syndicalism and the Transition to Communism written by Ralph Darlington and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first two decades of the twentieth century, amidst an extraordinary international upsurge in strike action, the ideas of revolutionary syndicalism developed into a major influence within the world wide trade union movement. Committed to destroying capitalism through direct industrial action and revolutionary trade union struggle, the movement raised fundamental questions about the need for new and democratic forms of power through which workers could collectively manage industry and society. This study provides an all-embracing comparative analysis of the dynamics and trajectory of the syndicalist movement in six specific countries: France, Spain, Italy, America, Britain and Ireland. This is achieved through an examination of the philosophy of syndicalism and the varied forms that syndicalist organisations assumed; the distinctive economic, social and political context in which they emerged; the extent to which syndicalism influenced wider politics; and the reasons for its subsequent demise. The volume also provides the first ever systematic examination of the relationship between syndicalism and communism, focusing on the ideological and political conversion to communism undertaken by some of the syndicalist movement's leading figures and the degree of synthesis between the two traditions within the new communist parties that emerged in the early 1920s.
Download or read book Syndicalism Industrial Unionism and Socialism written by John Spargo and published by New York : B.W. Huebsch. This book was released on 1913 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roads to Freedom written by Bertrand Russell and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communism and Syndicalism written by Leon Trotsky and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposed Roads to Freedom written by Bertrand Russell and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1919 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE attempt to conceive imaginatively a better ordering of human society than the destructive and cruel chaos in which mankind has hitherto existed is by no means modern: it is at least as old as Plato, whose "Republic" set the model for the Utopias of subsequent philosophers. Whoever contemplates the world in the light of an ideal - whether what he seeks be intellect, or art, or love, or simple happiness, or all together - must feel a great sorrow in the evils that men needlessly allow to continue, and - if he be a man of force and vital energy - an urgent desire to lead men to the realization of the good which inspires his creative vision. It is this desire which has been the primary force moving the pioneers of Socialism and Anarchism, as it moved the inventors of ideal commonwealths in the past. In this there is nothing new. What is new in Socialism and Anarchism, is that close relation of the ideal to the present sufferings of men, which has enabled powerful political movements to grow out of the hopes of solitary thinkers. It is this that makes Socialism and Anarchism important, and it is this that makes them dangerous to those who batten, consciously or unconsciously upon the evils of our present order of society. [...]
Download or read book Roads to Freedom Socialism Anarchism and Syndicalism written by Bertrand Russell and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism, and Syndicalism" by Bertrand Russell. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World 1870 1940 written by Steven Hirsch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before communism, anarchism and syndicalism were central to labour and the Left in the colonial and postcolonial world.Using studies from Africa,Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, this groundbreaking volume examines the revolutionary libertarian Left's class politics and anti-colonialism in the first globalization and imperialism(1870/1930).
Download or read book The Conquest of Power written by Albert Weisbord and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Syndicalism in France written by J.R. Jennings and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-06-18 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of syndicalist ideas in France from the 19th century until the 1960s. It looks at two groups of people: the militants who created and led the syndicalist movement at its height and the intellectuals who in the first decade of the 20th century outlined a distinct syndicalist ideology.
Download or read book Radical Unionism written by Ralph Darlington and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the entwined international legacy of revolutionary syndicalism and the communist movement. --From publisher description.
Download or read book Syndicalist Legacy written by Kathryn Ellen Amdur and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collection of Pamphlets on Socialism Communism Syndicalism Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bolshevism Syndicalism and the General Strike the Lost written by Kevin Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third and final volume of Kevin Morgan's widely acclaimed series Bolshevism and the British Left centres around the figure of Alf Purcell (1872-1935), who between the wars was one of the leading personalities in the British and international labour movement. A long-term member of the TUC General Council, Purcell became chairman of the general strike committee in 1926 - and this could have been his hour of glory. But when it was called off ignominiously he experienced the obloquy of defeat. Purcell was most famous as one of TUC 'lefts' of the 1920s. But he was also Labour MP for both the Forest of Dean and Coventry, as well as being the founder of a working guild in the spirit of guild socialism, the controversial president of the International Federation of Trade Unions and the man who moved the formation of the British communist party. A sometime syndicalist and associate of Tom Mann, his experiences in the militant Furnishing Trades gave rise to the uncompromising trade-union internationalism which features so centrally in these chapters. But with the squeezing of his syndicalist approach, as the labour movement polarised into Labour and communist currents, Purcell died a politically broken figure. Morgan also deploys the life of Purcell as a biographical lens, a way of exploring wider controversies - among them the rival modernities of Bolshevism and Americanism; the reactions to Bolshevism of anarchists like Emma Goldman (who called Purcell 'that damn fake'); and the roots of political tourism to the USSR in the British labour delegations in which Purcell featured so prominently. The volume also includes a major challenge to existing interpretations of the general strike, which it compellingly presents, not as the last fling of the syndicalists, but as a first and disastrously ill-conceived imposition of social-democratic centralism by Ernest Bevin.
Download or read book How We Shall Bring about the Revolution written by Emile Pataud and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economics and Syndicalism written by Adam W. Kirkaldy and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Syndicalism Industrial Unionism and Soicalism written by John Spargo and published by . This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a 1908-1909 series of lectures delivered by John Spargo (1876-1966), a leading socialist writer of the period. Spargo admits that he disagrees with syndicalist views, but he does admit that syndicalism is better than capitalism. He presents the history of syndicalism, the rise of the IWW, what industrial unionism really should be and, socialism (which Spargo wants to be the ultimate goal). Appendices include Preamble of the IWW, an editorial from "Social Justice" on sabotage, the Jena Resolution on the General Strike, August Bebel on the General Strike, Kautsky on violence, and the Attitude of the French Syndicalists on Violence. Spargo, trained as a stonecutter, but became a lay Methodist minister, became identified with the socialists in England in early life, became a leader in the English labor movement; and served on the Executive Council of the Social Democratic Federation. Spargo immigrated to America in 1901 and was thereafter a longtime member of the National Executive Committee of the American Socialist Party. He regarded Bolshevism as an "inverted form of Czarism." He edited socialist periodical, The Comrade, became involved in child labor issues; helped promote laws on child and woman labor, and moved to Vermont in 1909.He remained active in socialist circles, but moved to the right over World War I, and with Samuel Gompers and George Creel, founded the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy, in favor of American involvement in the war. He gradually became outspoken advocate of free-market capitalism. His major publications include The Bitter Cry of Children (1906) and Karl Marx: His Life and Work (1909).
Download or read book Roads to Freedom written by Bertrand Russell and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2024-01-03T21:03:46Z with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Roads to Freedom, written at the close of World War I in 1918, the British philosopher Bertrand Russell compares and contrasts three tendencies of socialist thought: Marxism (which Russell refers to as “State Socialism” or simply “Socialism”), Anarchism, and Syndicalism. After giving a historical outline of each ideology, Russell goes on to examine whether the ideal societies proposed by these ideologies would be practicable in reality and how issues such as wages, crime, international relations, art, and science would be addressed by these societies. He comes to the conclusion that the best practicable society is a form of Guild Socialism incorporating some of the proposals of Anarchism, like universal provision of basic needs. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
