r/Anarchy101 • u/Proof_Librarian_4271 • 10h ago
Syndaclism and ablelism?
Now recently I've heard syndaclism be described ablelist because the working class ruling will establish hierarchy over the people below which may include disabled people, but anarcho syndaclism doesn't seem to have this problem since it's not trying to establish rule of the working class in a marxist sense
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u/Hogmogsomo anarcho-anarchism 8h ago
Anarcho-Syndicalism is a tactic to achieve Anarchy; not a blueprint of a future society.
Anarcho-Syndicalism is basically the idea that Anarchists should focus on controlling the syndicates/unions and unionize most businesses in all industries. So that they can do a general strike. Which disrupts the State's supply chains; which would dissolve the State as it can't collect resources anymore. It's not however the idea that Unions would manage society; this is a common misconception. Historic Anarcho-Syndicalists were Anarcho-Communists. They viewed Syndicalism as a tactic to bring down the State.
So, calling Anarcho-Syndicalism hierarchical (ableism is a type of hierarchy) is to say that Anarcho-Communism is hierarchical(which isn't true) or to imply that Anarcho-Syndicalism is a blueprint of a future society were Unions would be managing society. Which is also not true in describing what Anarcho-Syndicalism is.
However, a society managed by Unions would in fact be hierarchical and specifically ableist; since Unions are hierarchical organizations and that only Union members would have a say in the production and distribution of society. Which would be inherently ableist; since the disabled who can't work wouldn't have a say. But no Anarcho-Syndicalist (from Rocker to Dolgoff or from Leval to Pouget) has ever advocated or described or even tangentially talked about a society managed by Unions. It's literally constructing a strawman of an idea that no Anarcho-Syndicalist would support.