Anarcho-syndicalism

 

A sociopolitical methodology ascribed to a wide variance of precepts governing the emergence of an Anarchist administrative paradigm. Syndicalisme, the French equivalency of the correspondent entry: ‘syndicalism’, which precedes the Anarcho terminological designate; exists as an idiomatic derivative synonymous with trade unionism (A process by which the prospectus of trade unions and the subsequent proliferation of organizations relevant to their establishment attain precedence in a corporate setting). Syndicalism is indicative of the presence of an alternative form of a co-operative or cooperative economic system (a field of economics, socialist indoctrinated fiduciary templates, co-operative studies, and politically inspired fiscal dynamics relevant to the genesis of co-operatives within the predominant socio-economic exemplar - co-operatives, in this contextual setting exist as business organizations owned and operated by a small consortium embracing mutual exclusivity for the purpose of monetary benefit). Adherents to such ideological systems seek the abolition of the wage incorporated schema and state or private ownership as the principle means of production (Means of production refers to physical, non-human inputs utilized in the manufacture of goods or the rendering of service - industries or factories, machinery or electrical equipment, commensurate instruments or tools related to the accumulation of wealth and the genesis of a substantive profit in a socio-economic setting), legal stipulations fostering the division of the economic class within the acknowledged labor prospectus.

Black Cat

A symbolic representation/ motif of the Anarcho-syndicalist philosophy, the black cat is synonymous with several terminological designations; specifically the following: wild cat, sabot-cat, sabo cat, and sabotage cat. Its principal design created by Ralph Chaplin, a prominent figure throughout the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Movement

 

(A term synonymous with the Wobblies political nomenclature, the IWW exists as an international union devoid of territorial boundary or line of demarcation whose genesis is recognized as having occurred in Chicago, in the year 1905. In 1923, at its influential zenith, the organization laid claim to nearly 100,000 members with the capability of marshalling the support of more than 300,000 within the predominant labor force. Its membership declining dramatically after internal conflicts within the IWW hierarchal order attained precedence in 1924, with the irrevocable separation of the organization resulting in the emergence of two distinctive factions: the centralizers and the decentralizers - which served as splinter groups allied in principal with the Socialist Labor Party [SLP] and the Workers’ International Industrial Union [WIIU]), the black cat serves as an illustrative composite invoking sporadic work-related strikes and radical unionism for the express purpose of perpetuating the abolition of wage systems and the unification of the labor force into a distinctive socio-economic class/ entity.