Barnfish wrote:
andyh wrote:
Barnfish wrote:
andyh wrote:
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Anarcho-syndicalism is not a communist barter system barnfish......
Read the history of anarcho-syndicalism and you will see its origins are from worker empowerment theories such as Marxism in what can be broadly described as communistic. If you abolish money you are only left with barter.
So workers having more pay, control over their work and owning co-op banks is communist but having a co-op bank account on its own is good.
Sigh. Worker owned and cooperative institutions came from the same set of theories that resulted in failed communism. That does not mean other forms of worker cooperatives are fails.
Go watch the mondragon video, you'll find it far far removed from any chairman mao bollocks.
Mondragon exists now today in Spain and has been running successfully for donkeys years.
They are self employed...thats hardly marxist is it?
Go ahead and try for an hour to put aside your emotional biased bullshit and educate yourself.
You are making the incorrect assumption that I do not know what I am talking about. I am all for workers cooperatives and come from the home of such.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Lanark
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenwick_Weavers%27_Society
My objection is when such are taken over by ideologists and are then corrupted. Have you read Animal Farm?
Animal farm was about leninism specifically which was the result of the russian revolution.
The workers revolted to get one authority replaced with another authority.
As for other failed models of anarcho-syndicalism and worker co-op they sold out, again some people got greedy and fucked things up.
Shit happens. Shit also happens and flies around the place in prodigious amounts when people do nothing.
The point is that Mondragon, though not perfect, is 'better' than the present setup, that much is obvious to my neighbors pet gerbil
Mondragon also exists, you can point at the rochdale pioneers etc all you like, they failed, so what?
You don't try you fail already. Stick your money in a co-op bank all you like, it can still be worthless tomorrow anytime the govt try to hyperinflate to solve debt and theres nothing you can do about it with a co-op bank.
The govt can also take your land and property anytime they like with eminent domain.