Zackasaurus-rex said:
You misunderstand me, and I don't need Wikipedia links. I do political philosophy for a living. But thanks! c: Syndicalism is a form of union-based socialism, with the means of production democratically controlled by the workers, with elected management and institutions to protect that. It's a theory of democratic economics which is indeed opposed to privatised economics. Mutualists, for the record, opposed private economic control. Mutualism is a socialist-anarchist philosophy advocating a communal culture based on voluntary contribution. It's decidedly an anti-capitalist philosophy and was created by an anti-capitalist philosopher (Proudhon, who claimed that all private property is theft from society). |
Capitalism, according to 19th century socialists, was not a free-market economic system though, it was a mixed-economy in which government and private entities "exploited" the labor of the proleritat so that the borgiouse could accumulate monetary wealth and private property. Mussolini (arguably the father of "fascism") was also a syndicalist and corporatist (you cannot have democratic economic planning of the means of production without a state or a corporation.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_syndicalism
That is the form of syndicalism present in fascist states.
"In the early 20th century, nationalists and syndicalists were increasingly influencing each other in Italy.[5] From 1902 to 1910, a number of Italian revolutionary syndicalists including Arturo Labriola, Agostino Lanzillo, Angelo Oliviero Olivetti, and Sergio Panunzio sought to unify the Italian nationalist cause with the syndicalist cause and had entered into contact with Italian nationalist figures such as Enrico Corradini.[6] These Italian national syndicalists held a common set of principles: the rejection of bourgeoisvalues, democracy, liberalism, Marxism, internationalism, and pacifism while promoting heroism, vitalism, and violence.[7] Many of these national syndicalist proponents would go on to become Fascists"
National syndicalism was intended to win over the anarcho-syndicalist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) to a corporatist nationalism. Ledesma's manifesto was discussed in the CNT congress of 1931. However, the National Syndicalist movement effectively emerged as a separate political tendency. Later the same year, Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista was formed, and subsequently voluntarily fused with Falange Española. In 1936 Franco forced a further less voluntary merger with traditionalist Carlism, to create a single party on the Nationalist side of the Spanish Civil War. It was one of the ideological bases of Francoist Spain, especially in the early years.
As for proudhon, while he opposed the private ownership of property that wasn't obtained through homesteading (he had no problem with homestead property) he did not want to force people to give up ownership. Mutualism was all about voluntary interactions, and while it is socialist in nature, my point was that free-markets aren't exclusively admired by capitalists, but also by socialists.