AHC: Syndicalist France

First, we need to figure out how syndicalism beats Marxist-Leninism.

Marxism-Leninism didn't really develop until issues in Stalinist ideology forced schisms around Stalinism, Maoism and revisionism/humanism. So I'm having difficulty figuring out how this is relevant.

Even Lenin's trajectory is unusual to say the least. His nearest cothinker would have to be DeLeon. Unlike Lenin, DeLeon lacked the chance of being in a crisis where a nucleus would appeal broadly.

And up to 1919, the main revolutionary currents in the class were related to shop floor organisation in newer type factories: the Russian workplace Soviets, the German councils and KAPD, the Italian workplace Soviets, the British shop stewards, the Australian TUCs/IWW, the US IWW.

The more significant question would be why syndicalism failed in Europe, being out-developed during the 1920s by the early Moscow aligned independentish Communist parties.

Or why the IIeme parties failed abysmally in 1914 and 1917+.

Or why the UK/Au/NZ labour parties were less successful than they could have been.

Bolshevism is a side issue, even as an impulse (cf: DeLeonism), and a matter of great contingency, until 1918.

yours,
Sam R.
 
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