Honestly, I find there’s a lot of overlap between Marxism and Anarcho-syndicalism, and I think this is essentially the correct way for the workforce to be organized.
For a while, that’s probably how I would have sorted myself, but how are the anarcho-syndicalists on taking power from capital and wielding it? How does that differ from Lenin’s guidance? (Part of why I don’t call myself an anti-Leninist is that I haven’t read any Lenin lol.)
As far I’m aware, Anarcho-syndicalists don’t really provide a solution for changing the system as a whole. Meanwhile, Lenin focused specifically on achieving a socialist revolution. Lenin primarily dealt with the task of organizing and education the masses to create a revolutionary force that would be able to seize power from the capitalists. The two most prominent works I’d recommend starting with would be What Is To be Done? and The State and Revolution.
Allow me to shamelessly plug my introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list, if you don’t mind! Lenin is a phenomenal author and is critical to modern theory. You can come to your own conclusions, but the works of Lenin I cite in my list I would consider the “essentials,” and the works preceding them in the reading order to be helpful in contextualizing them.
Honestly, I find there’s a lot of overlap between Marxism and Anarcho-syndicalism, and I think this is essentially the correct way for the workforce to be organized.
For a while, that’s probably how I would have sorted myself, but how are the anarcho-syndicalists on taking power from capital and wielding it? How does that differ from Lenin’s guidance? (Part of why I don’t call myself an anti-Leninist is that I haven’t read any Lenin lol.)
As far I’m aware, Anarcho-syndicalists don’t really provide a solution for changing the system as a whole. Meanwhile, Lenin focused specifically on achieving a socialist revolution. Lenin primarily dealt with the task of organizing and education the masses to create a revolutionary force that would be able to seize power from the capitalists. The two most prominent works I’d recommend starting with would be What Is To be Done? and The State and Revolution.
Allow me to shamelessly plug my introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list, if you don’t mind! Lenin is a phenomenal author and is critical to modern theory. You can come to your own conclusions, but the works of Lenin I cite in my list I would consider the “essentials,” and the works preceding them in the reading order to be helpful in contextualizing them.
Anarcho syndicalism is snakey af