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Title: Beyond Workerism — Beyond Syndicalism Author: Anonymous Language: en Topics: anti-work, insurrectionist, organization, trade unions Source: Retrieved on August 11, 2009 from http://325collective.com/library_beyond%20workerism.html Notes: From the magazine Insurrection
The end of syndicalism corresponds to the end of workerism. For us it is
also the end of the quantitive illusion of the party and the specific
organization of synthesis. The revolt of tomorrow must look for new
roads. Trade unionism is in its decline. In good as in evil with this
structural form of struggle an era is disappearing, a model and a future
world seen in terms of an improved and corrected reproduction of the old
one. We are moving towards new and profound transformations. In the
productive structure, in the social structure. Methods of struggle,
perspectives, even short term projects are also transforming.
In an expanding industrial society the trade union moves from instrument
of struggle to instrument supporting the productive structure itself.
Revolutionary syndicalism has also played its part: pushing the most
combative workers forward but, at the same time, pushing them backwards
in terms of capacity to see the future society or the creative needs of
the revolution. Everything remained parceled up within the factory
dimension. Workerism is not just common to authoritarian communism.
Singling out privileged areas of the class clash is still today one of
the most deep-rooted habits that it is difficult to lose.
The end of trade-unionism therefore. We have been saying so for fifteen
years now. At one time this caused criticism and amazement, especially
when we included anarcho-syndicalism in our critique. We are more easily
accepted today. Basically, who does not criticize the trade unions
today? No one, or almost no one. But the connection is overlooked. Our
criticism of trade unionism was also criticism of the “quantitive”
method that has all the characteristics of the party in embryo. It was
also a critique of the specific organizations of synthesis. It was also
a critique of class respectability borrowed from the bourgeoisie and
filtered through the cliché of so-called proletarian morals. All that
cannot be ignored. If many comrades agree with us today in our now
traditional critique of trade-unionism those who share a view of all the
consequences that it gives rise to are but a few.
We can only intervene in the world of production using means that do not
place themselves in the quantitive perspective. They cannot therefore
claim to have specific anarchist organizations behind them working on
the hypothesis of revolutionary synthesis. This leads us to a different
method of intervention, that of building factory “nucleii” or zonal
“nucleii” which limit themselves to keeping in contact with a specific
anarchist structure, and are exclusively based on affinity. It is from
the relationship between the base nucleus and specific anarchist
structure that a new model of revolutionary struggle emerges to attack
the structures of capital and the State through recourse to
insurrectional methods.
This allows for a better following of the profound transformations that
are taking place in the productive structures. The factory is about to
disappear, new productive organizations are taking its place, based
mainly on automation. The workers of yesterday will become partially
integrated into a supporting situation or simply into a situation of
social security in the short-term, survival in the long one. New forms
of work will appear on the horizon. Already the classical workers’ front
no longer exists. Like-wise the trade union as is obvious. At least it
no longer exists in the form in which we have known until now. It has
become a firm like any other.
A network of increasingly different relations, all under the banner of
participation, pluralism, democracy, etc, will spread over society
bridling almost all the forces of subversion. The extreme aspects of the
revolutionary project will be systematically criminalized. But the
struggle will take new roads, will filter towards a thousand new
subterranean channels emerging in a hundred thousand explosions of rage
and destruction with new and incomprehensible symbology.
As anarchists we must be careful, we are carriers of an often heavy
mortgage from the past, not to remain distanced from a phenomenon that
we end up not understanding and whose violence could one fine day even
scare us, and in the first case we must be careful to develop our
analysis in full.