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Sunday, May 01, 2005

The effort to impose virtue:

From earliest time there is a natural desire to impose want is seen as virtue. The grand inquisitor, the terror during the French Revolution, Romantic Communism, and the http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/spunk/Spunk198.html Anarcho-syndicalism is the anarchist wing of the labor union movement. Its primary aim is the end of the wage system. It functions on principles of workers solidarity, direct action, and self-management.

In Catalonia in 1936 the syndicates had everyone in collectives – including the union of prostitutes. If people strayed from their idea of collective virtue they were shot and a plank on their chest explaining why they were at fault.

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