Syndicalism Quotes

“One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, ‘our side,’ had captured a crucial word from the enemy . . . ‘Libertarians’ . . . had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over...”
― Murray N. Rothbard, The Betrayal Of The American Right

“In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable.”
― Bertrand Russell, Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism

“Theoretically it is, indeed, asserted that the relation between employer and employee is based upon a contract for the accomplishment of a definite purpose. The purpose in this case is social production. But a contract has meaning only when both parties participate equally in the purpose. In reality, however, the worker has today no voice in determining production, for this is given over completely to the employer. The consequence is that the worker is debased by doing a thousand things which constantly serve only to injure the whole community for the advantage of the employer.”
― Rudolf Rocker, Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice