Four Weeks One Summer Quotes

“Anarcho-syndicalists, also known as “anarchists” or “libertarian syndicalists”, believe that power corrupts and that economic, social and political privilege flows from the power of the state and that the primary purpose of the state is the defence of private property. To them, this power denies most people the ability to enjoy material independence and social autonomy. Accordingly, as an alternative to the power of the state, anarcho-syndicalism advocates collective ownership by the workers of all enterprises, with that ownership deriving from the initiatives of the workers within individual enterprises. It advocates the liberation of the people from below, with autonomy and self-realisation working its way up the system, as opposed to communism (“dictatorship of the proletariat”) or socialism (“claiming the commanding heights of the economy”) where liberation comes from above. Further, if necessary, they believed that this liberation may be achieved through industrial action, expropriation and violence.”
― Nicholas Whitlam, Four Weeks One Summer: When It All Went Wrong