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?
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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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Another View: Syndicalism, Anarchism and Marxism
This is the published version of a reply to an article by Marxist Ralph Darlington in Anarchist Studies (vol. 17, no. 2). Darlington’s original article appeared in Volume 17, Number 1 of Anarchist Studies and discusses the anarchist origins of syndicalism and refutes attempts to include Marxism as one of its influences. It discusses Bakunin’s syndicalist ideas and shows how Marx and Engels explicitly rejected them. Ralph Darlington declined to reply
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Review: Left Americana: The Radical Heart of US History
A review of a a collection of articles by a Trotskyist academic. Its author seeks to rewrite history by proclaiming the Haymarket Martyrs Marxists and getting basic facts about Marxism wrong. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 88 (Winter 2024)
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