A response to a Marxist seeking to make Marxism more acceptable to anarchists by injecting syndicalist ideas into it. Why bother if you have anarchism?
(more…)Month: November 2025
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Review: Democracy at work: A cure for capitalism
A review of a book by a Marxist academic advocating economic democracy. It could have done with some understanding of anarchist ideas for the goals aimed for — workers’ control — is far more at home within anarchism than Marxism. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 64/5 (Summer 2015).
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Review: The British Communist Left, 1914-1945
A review of a “communist-left” (Bordigist) book on the British anti-parliamentarian communist movement which developed during and after the First World War. Suffice to say, it is not very good, as befitting Bordigist ideology.
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Review: How we shall bring about the revolution
A review of a classic of French revolutionary syndicalism. Essential reading for anyone wanting to find out about its ideas on social change. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No> 78 (Winter 2020) and before that, Freedom
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Pay Inequality: where it comes from and what to do about it
A short account of how exploitation happens within capitalism. It appeared, if memory serves, as “Mind the Gap!” in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 73 (Spring 2018)
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