#anarchosyndicalist

[iamtheweirdomister]

[stuckwith-harry]

does anyone have recommendations for a city building/management simulator that doesn't default to capitalism and isn't quite so eurocentric / borderline coloniser-y?

[yourfaveisleftist]

Ellen ripley is an anarchosyndicalist

[transgenderer]

A lot of people, both it's proponents and it's critics, think of the organization of modern western society as sort of...cynical and practical in the nature of its organization. And I think there's obviously an element of that. But I think from another perspective it's sort of just as weird and wacky and starry-eyed and ideological as early communism, or an anarchosyndicalist commune or whatever. Like, the atomized individual as an independent economic agent is something that takes a certain...social technology/ideology to maintain! If you're working with a populace that doesn't buy that idea, it doesn't work. It's one of those weird catch-22 game theory things, there are multiple stable equilibria where everyone roughly agrees on what a person's role in society is. But the atomized conception of that role is very new, and not entirely intuitive, it has a very messy border around the family and the transition to adulthood.

[aristotels]

our fav albanian-kosovar-anarchosyndicalist-ethnonationalist makes an appearance once more in my comments to accuse me of being a serbian psyop or something

[argyrocratie]

"It is known that the no-vote, abstentionist campaign of the C.N.T. and the F.A.I. resulted in the victory of the Spanish right wing, and repressive action against the socialists and republicans (the "two black years"). Constitutional guarantees were suspended practically all the time. Rodolfo Llopis wrote at that time (October 34, page 3 3 , Madrid, 1935 , quoted by Abel Paz) :

The goverment granted amnesty to the enemies of the Republic. The royalist generals were restored to their positions of command, and priests obtained their pensions. Relations with the Vatican were restored, religious orders were authorized to resume teaching, all the social laws of the Republic were annulled, Republican and socialist municipalities were deprived of funds and turned over to the enemies of the regime. Workers' organizations were persecuted constantly, their headquarters closed. At the same time, fascist groups organized and armed themselves under the benevolent eye of the authorities.

It was not without a certain bitter complacency that the anarchists and anarchosyndicalists now listened to the socialist lamentations. The Law of Public Order, the Law of Defense of the Republic, and the Law Against Vagrants and Thieves were applied with equal vigour against both movements. The repressive legal instruments created during the republican-socialist regime were now turned against them. That was when Largo Caballero began to speak a revolutionary language and to speak of a workers' alliance.

The anarchosyndicalists and the F.A.I. believed that the abstention from voting helped clarify positions on the right as well as on the left, which Durruti thought could only help the working class, since the socialist leaders gave up power only when they were driven out by the people. Durruti did not reject the idea of the workers' alliance, but amended it as follows :

No political party, however socialist it may be, can belong to the workers' alliance. It must be built at the base, in the shops where the workers carry on their struggle. Their representative organizations must be workers' committees acting in the shops, the factories, the mines, and the municipalities. We must reject a pact at the national level, between national committees, in favour of an alliance forged at the base by the workers themselves. Then, and only then, will the revolutionary initiative be aroused and developed.

-Juan Gómez Casas, "Anarchist organisation: the history of the F.A.I" (1986)

[teresiel]

Finally (FINALLY!) continuing my Dragon Age as Trainers series. This has been a few months in-progress after a CSP subscription glitch that left quite a bit of progress unsaved. Still not as happy with it as I could be in a less stressed capacity, alas!

Anders is a belaugered philosophy-scholar-turned-caregiver-and-anarchosyndicalist who provides assistance (and lectures) to people who cannot afford service otherwise. His weather-protected trench-coat will have to suffice as a not-quite biohazard safe lab-coat and a sufficient marker of his willingness to prioritize subtlety and safety over a barely-suppressed desire to destroy and tear down a deeply corrupt system of healthcare and access to everyday necessities.

When not attending to people with ailments, illness, and unfettered class resentment, Anders often spends time near universities, attempting to share his manifesto ideas as well as stay up-to-date on the academic journals he lost access to when booted from his prior University. He can't assure access to the campus library, but when he can, he prides himself on his capacity to convince students to conveniently leave their computer and/or logins unattended. He needs that good good peer reviewed data. Not to toot his own horn, but charisma, humour, and cat photos can get you quite far with college students!

Team under the cut!

Furret was befriended when he made a habit of curling up to provide comfort to a lonely and discomfitted Anders during his early years at school. His altruism and compassion belies his gullibility and voracious appetite for the cheese crisps that Anders conveniently left out to attract and make a friend of one of the many pests of the dorm. Furret takes pride in his role as a provider of warmth and emotional support for both his Trainer as well as those his Trainer takes into his temporary care.

Slowking a natural partner to Anders' own aptitude for empathy- and idealism-fueled research, Slowking adores Anders and feels priveleged to have grown up with a fellow he can take pride in and mutually benefit from; Slowking's vaunted patience and temperence are traits that are certainly to Anders' benefit). Likewise, Anders' good humour and knowledge ensures Slowking receives the patience and support he deserves when his memory fails him.

Skitty is the Ser-Pounce-A-Lot analogue. He is up to entirely no good and is set out to prove that All-Cops-Are-Bastards-But-Especially-Aveline. He also hates Fenris, but he swears that's his only exception to his otherwise faultlessly enthusiastic adoradtion for the common folk. He's a happy Pokemon who likes to spend time with the younger people Anders helps. Will scratch if you are a fascist. Smarter than your average cat, which is surprising since he did/ate/experienced many development-stunting things during his early years as a barn Skitty.

Glameow stolen rescued from a situation wherein she was imported and added to a collection of exotic pets in an entirely-too-small urban space. While not entirely neglected, her natural needs were veritaly ignored as her prior Trainer prioritized sensational videos, pampering, and toxi anthropomorphism. Anders absconded with her with the help of Fenris, though they never speak of it. This makes matters confusing for their peers' who ever-wonder why Anders has a party-member that not only tolerates but cuddles with Fenris. Glameow is very demure and struggles with disordered and compulsive thinking. She also has very high stats, but is thrilled to be facing no pressures from her team, including no pressures to battle. She much prefers staying near Anders' study space.

Audino is Anders' main partner. She provides the care-giving ancillary to any Audino's natural proclivity for psychiatry, healing, and attentive empathy, though she's uncharacteristically mischievous about it all. Anders prefers she keep to soft-spoken patients, as Audino has a tendency to mouth off to cantankerous patients, especially those who are older. She is (apologetically) biased and is trying to work on it.

Espurr is the embodiment of Anders' sublimated-yet-ferocious venom for society's issues. Can and will kill. Probably not a healthy partner for Anders.

Less jokingly, I imagine Espurr is the yongest of Anders' Pokemon and was likely found and taken-in by either Furret or Audino. Espurr is deeply skittish and temperamental, preferring to lash out than to indulge its current fear of most loud and aggressive things. They're prone to bursts of psychic enegy which often put itself at risk; Anders has created a quiet and calm space for it in his study space, which he hopes to expand.

[theonewhocounts]

about me

32

they/he

genderqueer transmasculine, gay af, butch

White and American

autistic, anxious, ADHD

antifascist & anarchosyndicalist

metalhead

i have been in graduate school for like 1000 years. i'm getting my PhD in how kids' brains learn math (educational neuroscience & numerical cognition). I don't really post about it.

i have been on tumblr Since The Beginning (2009)

used to be @in-my-fiend-era until i got mad at some settings and started a new account

spirituality sideblog is @satanicallypanicky (Diabolism/theistic Satanism, Anglo-Saxon heathenism, animism, witchcraft, etc etc etc)

fandom sideblog is @ferengi-waiters-union

[mykofanesvlepy]

116. "Prosexwork movement is workers' movement" - anarchosyndicalist and anarchafeminist version

Umbrella by Pride-Flags 

[scottishcommune]

The power of social ecology lies in the association it establishes between society and ecology, in understanding that the social is, potentially at least, a fulfillment of the latent dimension of freedom in nature, and that the ecological is a major organising principle of social development.

In short, social ecology advances the guidelines for an ecological society. The great divorce between nature and society — or between the “biological” and the “cultural” — is overcome by shared developmental concepts such as greater diversity in evolution; the wider and more complete participation of all components in a whole; and the ever more fecund potentialities that expand the horizon of freedom and self-reflexivity. Society, like mind, ceases to be sui generis.

Like mind, with its natural history, social life emerges from the loosely banded animal community to form the highly institutionalised human community. Social ecology challenges the image of an unmediated natural evolution, in which the human mind, society, and even culture are sui generis, in which nonhuman nature is irretrievably separated from human nature, and in which an ethically defamed nature finds no expression whatever in society, mind, and human will. It seeks to throw a critical and meaningful light on the phased, graded, and cumulative development of nature into society, richly mediated by the prolonged dependence of the human young on parental care, by the blood tie as the earliest social and cultural bond beyond immediate parental care, by the so-called “sexual division of labor,” and by age-based status groups and their role in the origin of hierarchy.

Ultimately, it is the institutionalisation of the human community that distinguishes society from the nonhuman community — whether for the worse, as in the case of pre-1789 France or tsarist Russia, where weak, unfeeling tyrants like Louis XVI and Nicholas II were raised to commanding positions by bureaucracies, armies, and social classes; or for the better, as in forms of self-governance and management that empower the people as a whole, like the Parisian sections during the French Revolution and the anarchosyndicalist collectives during the Spanish Civil War. We see no such contrived institutional infrastructures in nonhuman communities, although the rudiments of a social bond do exist in the mother-offspring relationship and in common forms of mutual aid.

- Murray Bookchin, Freedom and Necessity in Nature: A Problem in Ecological Ethics

[hazardous-waste-containment]

Ironically, [before the Carnation Revolution] the only previous serious challenge to [the Salazar regime’s] ideological and political formula came from the extreme Right. As different groups jockeyed to determine what kind of regime would succeed the obviously transitory military dictatorship, an authentically fascist and radical movement emerged from the ranks of Integralismo. Calling itself “National Syndicalism,” it advocated an anti-liberal, anti-bourgeois, anti-capitalist, anti-internationalist, anti-Bolshevik mobilizational solution – a corporatist revolução, not just a corporatist enquadramento. Its social base would have been the rural-provincial middle class, the peasantry, the working classes and técnicos, and their mobilized efforts would have aimed at breaking the power of “citified bourgeois,” “pseudo-intellectuals,” “local caciques,” “parasitic intermediaries,” etc. With its cross-like symbol expressing its “Christian” vocation, its adoption of the red flag pre-empting communist imagery, its blue-shirted militia attracting youth, its verbal violence and xenophobia reflecting its Integralista origins, its assurance of a harmonious corporatist order within the existing property system drawing the support of some privileged groups, its promise of social welfare and a more equal distribution of income appealing to some segments of the working class, and its emphasis on technical expertise appealing to professionals, the National-Syndicalists seemed in 1932 to represent the wave of Portugal’s future. Despite rigid censorship, its propaganda circulated freely, even in a daily newspaper, clearly indicating official sympathy and even complicity. Its leader, Rolão Preto, was a personal friend of Salazar.

Despite or because of its meteoric success in attracting followers and penetrating governing and military circles, it very quickly came into conflict with Salazar’s own plans for consolidating a more moderate form of authoritarian rule around a loosely structured “honorific” single party and an impotent, state-controlled set of corporatist institutions. Preto’s demagogic leadership qualities may have seemed a threat to the more self-effacing, technocratically-efficient, paternalist image of Salazar. In any case, National Syndicalism’s “welfarism” and verbal anti-capitalism would have severely compromised the plan of financial and fiscal reconstruction which was the policy core of the Estado Novo. In 1934, in a series of confused events, Preto was arrested and exiled. Shortly thereafter “the purged executive committee of national syndicalists decided to terminate its existence and called upon its members to join the União Nacional.” A quixotic attempt at a coup by some of its die-hards (in collaboration with anarchosyndicalists) the following year was easily suppressed. Ironically, the Salazar regime appropriated many of the symbols and organizational forms of the Blue-Shirts when, in conjunction with the Spanish Civil War, it entered its own fascistoid period.

Philippe C. Schmitter, “The Social Origins, Economic Bases and Political Imperatives of Authoritarian Rule in Portugal,” Who Were the Fascists?

[kipskiptrip]

I have become a mix of Emergency Intercom Doaenel hbomberguy and penguinz0 energies but with the political views of a far-left radical anarchosocialist anarchosyndicalist

[zephyrusreturns]

How do you balance what you think about for left theory, idealism, and what you think should be done. Like we feel that we are a social democrat in the sense that workplace democracy feels like an obtainable leftist ideal

oh someones actually been reading my tags? cool well first thing to note is i tried to read theory once or twice and it was drier than my mother's salt and pepper chicken i simply Cannot. luckily, most people in my local area wouldn't know what i was talking about if i did know theory, nor do they need to.

practically, i am in favor of grassroots, decentralized stuff. talking about flaws in systems and particular things i notice online here helps me destress, and online ideas often come before action, but thats not my bread and butter for action that fulfills me personally.

action to me looks like talking to your neighbors and coworkers. organizing potlucks at a park, offering what you can and asking for help in turn.

i dont think theres one ideal state for a person or a society, though we as humans need something to hope for and believe in to keep going. i think that One True Good World is just another manifestation of purity ideology. Things Must Be One Way. in that vein, theres no one set of actions. good faith, meeting people, helping and being helped seems to be what works. food banks, protests, community gardens, lobbying, starting fires outside government buildings, running for office, unionizing, voting, liberating resources from large corporations, inventing green tech, buying local or thrifting- theres plenty to choose from, and thats overwhelming.

i categorically refuse to try and list and solve all the worlds problems as an ideal, and that does mean i dont really have an idea of what i think would be best for government structure, or a specific label like anarchosyndicalist or communalist. i dont think thats something i can or want to decide. so i dont know if balance is the right word for how i stay stable, and if leftist action does get to a point where restructuring the government is a genuine concern and not all theory, i will have to re-evaluate and develop an opinion- that applies to most political happenings, really. i develop opinions as i gain info on whats happening or will happen soon, not what could in a hundred or a thousand years. i will do what good i can for myself and others and the world now and ignore what is irrelevant or overwhelming, because i dont have to know or learn everything to want to help out.

i guess i just- dont consider ideals much beyond I Want People To Suffer Less, To Live The Lives They Want To Live, And Have The Resources To Do So. and for that, just taking action and encouraging it in others is plenty.

[deez-nut-free-zone]

Nothing makes me more of an anarchosyndicalist than having, looking for, losing, or thinking about my job

[goodbearblind]

Posted @withregram • @anarchistimagination "The black cat, also called the "wild cat" or "sabot-cat", usually with an arched back and with claws and teeth bared, is closely associated with anarchism, especially with anarcho-syndicalism. It was designed by Ralph Chaplin, who was a prominent figure in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). As its stance suggests, the cat is meant to suggest wildcat strikes and radical unionism. The IWW was an important industrial union and was the first American labor union to recruit and organize women and people of color, playing a critical role in the fight for the eight-hour day and in free speech fights all over the country in the early 20th century. Their most famous and influential years were from 1905 until they were largely suppressed by the Palmer Raids in 1919–1920. The origin of the black cat symbol is unclear, but according to one story it came from an IWW strike that was going badly. Several members had been beaten up and were put in a hospital. At that time a skinny, black cat walked into the striker's camp. The cat was fed by the striking workers and as the cat regained its health the strike took a turn for the better. Eventually the striking workers got some of their demands and they adopted the cat as their mascot" #blackcat #wildcat #anarchosyndicalism #anarchosyndicalist #antiauthority #antigovernment #antiauthoritarian #iww #generalstrike https://www.instagram.com/p/CUzGUTiNAT5/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lennenpilled]

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