He viewed free economic groups and 'struggle', not pacifism as dominant in humans.

Hubert Lagardelle wrote that Pierre-Joseph Proudhon laid out fundamental ideas of anarcho-syndicalism, and repudiated both capitalism and the state in the process. Reflecting the anarchist philosophy from which it draws its primary inspiration, anarcho-syndicalism is centred around the idea that power corrupts. In contrast with other bodies of thought, particularly with Marxism–Leninism, anarcho-syndicalists accept the denial of a workers' state, or a state which acts in the interests of workers, as opposed to those of the powerful, and posit that any state with the intention of empowering the workers will inevitably work to empower itself or the existing elite at the expense of the workers. Anarcho-syndicalist theory therefore generally focuses on the labour movement.Īnarcho-syndicalists view the primary purpose of the state as being the defence of private property, and therefore of economic, social, and political privilege, denying most of its denizens the ability to enjoy material independence and the social autonomy which springs from it. The end goal of anarcho-syndicalism is to abolish the wage system, regarding it as wage slavery.

The basic principles of anarcho-syndicalism are solidarity, direct action (action undertaken without the intervention of third parties such as politicians, bureaucrats, and arbitrators) and direct democracy, or workers' self-management.

Rocker anarcho syndicalism