At that point they form a congress of unions made of representatives of all national unions which manage all remaining policy areas not already organised by lower level unions or which can only be coordinated at the highest level (army, foreign policy, international trade etc).Īs a political ideology syndicalism advocates for the creation of a state organised on a syndicalist economic and political basis.

This system is organised bottom-up with local labour unions being part of and represented in larger unions managing whole sections of the economy and so forth all the way up to the national level. Syndicalism therefore seeks to replace capitalism with a wholly different socialist economic system based on collaboration between trade unions representing the working class. Syndicalism as an economic policy is a form of economic corporatism that pushes for the creation of an ethical economy on basis of various voluntary self-managing cooperatives united under a common federal structure based on the principles of cooperation, mutual-aid and social or public ownership of the means of production. Syndicalism is an economic system and a political ideology which advocates for the implementation of said economic system. 6 Syndicalist Organisations and Parties in 1936.3.2.1 Syndicalism and Parliamentary Politics.

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