Color of Anarchism Re: Protest ISO...

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 9:48 PM -0800 1/2/03, Brian O. Sheppard x349393 wrote:
>  > Those were the days when anarchists were mainly anarcho-syndicalists.
>>  Outside the USA, anarcho-syndicalism may be still the main form of
>>  anarchism.  Within the USA, though, syndicalism does not appear to be
>>  the dominant tendency -- nay, it appears to be a marginal tendency in
>>  anarchism.  That may be in itself a problem.
>
>One the one hand, there's something a bit insulting about being 
>lectured by you as to what anarcho-syndicalism is, considering I've 
>been a part of that movement for awhile now and write regularly on 
>topics related to it. (Notice the IWW email addy I'm writing you 
>from.)

Didn't mean to lecture or insult you.  It's just that I've always 
thought that anarcho-syndicalism achieved the most among all 
anarchist tendencies and that it is a form of anarchism closest in 
spirit to socialism.  Some (many?) individuals who once belonged to 
the IWW later joined the Communist Party: e.g., Elizabeth Gurley 
Flynn, Lucy Parsons, Big Bill Haywood, etc.  (There have been 
comparable reverse movements as well, e.g., from the CP to Autonomist 
Marxism -- which was in spirit, theory, and practice nearly 
indistinguishable from anarcho-syndicalism -- in Italy.)
-- 
Yoshie

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