Syndicalism and the Transition to Communism

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.

ISBN 0754636178   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780754636175 (What's this?)   Pages 300 Publisher Ashgate Publishing Group   Volumes 001 Imprint Ashgate Publishing Limited   Published in Aldershot Format Hardback   Series title Studies in Labour History Publication date 23 Apr 2008   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress HD6477   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 331.886   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate

Pt. 1		Dynamics of the Syndicalist Movement
1		Philosophy and Practice		17
2		Origins and Growth		49
3		Composition and Structure		95
4		Internal Divisions		127
5		Influence and Demise		145
Pt. 2		The Transition to Communism
6		Moscow's Embrace		185
7		Trade Unionism		205
8		Union Bureaucracy		219
9		Economics and Politics		233
10		State and Revolution		247
11		Leadership and the Party		261
12		Syndicalist-Communist Fusion		277
		Bibliography		289
		Index		311

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