APPROACH
Anarcho-syndicalist organizing
Anarcho-syndicalist organizing uses worker unions and direct action both for present conflicts and as preparation for federated worker administration; this is one disputed anarchist strategy, not a definition of anarchism.
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attributed proposal
Rocker proposes revolutionary unions both defend workers under existing conditions and prepare them to administer production through federation.
Overview
What should you know?
Why organize unions?
Rocker gave revolutionary unions a defensive task under existing conditions and a constructive task in a future reorganization of production. Baker places this proposal within wider anarchist disagreements over mass organization and strategy.
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attributed proposal
Rocker proposes revolutionary unions both defend workers under existing conditions and prepare them to administer production through federation.
observation
Baker distinguishes mass-organizational, insurrectionist, syndicalist, and organizational-dualist strategies within the historical anarchist movement.
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Purpose and proposed institutions
Attributed purposes
Freedom from domination
observation
Across major historical currents, anarchists opposed the state's claim to governing authority.
attributed proposal
Rocker proposes revolutionary unions both defend workers under existing conditions and prepare them to administer production through federation.
Proposed institutions
Worker-union federation
definition
Anarchist proposals replace centralized governing authority with voluntary association, assemblies, delegation, and federation rather than rejecting organization itself.
attributed proposal
Rocker proposes revolutionary unions both defend workers under existing conditions and prepare them to administer production through federation.