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=== Friends ===
=== Friends ===
* [[File: Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]] - The best ideology.  
* [[File: Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]] - The best ideology.  
* [[File: Synd.png]] [[Syndicalism]] - Cool guy, but we are not the same.
*[[File:AnSynd.png|frameless]] [[Anarcho-Syndicalism]] - MAKE CATALONIA GREAT AGAIN!
*[[File:Libmarx.png]] [[Libertarian Marxism]] - We have a lot in common!
*[[File:Libmarx.png]] [[Libertarian Marxism]] - We have a lot in common!


=== Frenemies ===
=== Frenemies ===
* [[File:Sorelia.png]] [[National Syndicalism]] - You say you're [[File: Synd.png]][[Syndicalism|Syndicalism,]] but you're too close to [[File:Corptism.png]][[Corporatism]].
 
* [[File:Bernst.png]] [[Reformist Marxism]] - You are a bit too revisionist for my taste but I do admire you father.


=== Enemies ===
=== Enemies ===
* [[File: Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]] - STOP EXPLOITING THE WORKERS! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
* [[File: Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]] - The only thing you do is destroy workers lives.
* [[File:Fash.png]] [[Fascism]] - You have NOTHING to do with syndicalism you statist!
* [[File:Fash.png]] [[Fascism]] - Militarism is only the natural accompaniment of capitalism fully developed.
* [[File:LeftCom.png]] [[Left Communism]] - Doing nothing but reading theory will get you nowhere.
* [[File:Bernst.png]] [[Reformist Marxism]] - Bad socialist, very bad.
* [[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism]] - Too much STATE control you're just state capitalism!
* [[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy]] - This is literally just the natural conclusion of reformism...
* [[File:Stalin.png]] [[Stalinism]] - AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
* [[File:Blanqui.png]] [[Blanquism]] - Why no mass movements?
* [[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy]] - HAHAHAHA, you actually think that capitalism can be reformed?? Cute.
* [[File: Synd.png]] [[Syndicalism]] - You lay hardly any stress—you cannot choose but fail to lay stress: the capitalist development in the land of your birth(France) does not furnish you with the foundation for laying such stress—upon the STRUCTURE, its main stress is laid upon the FUNCTION of the economic organization,—that function being, according to you, physical force.
* [[File:Blanqui.png]] [[Blanquism]] - You are too friendly with the fascists for my taste.
* [[File:Sorelia.png]] [[National Syndicalism]] - Some dumb nationalist, don't listen to him.
* [[File:Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism]] - Reform is a tangible way to achieve socialism! also why are you so against workers revolution? you are starting to remind me of [[File:Blanqui.png]][https://polcompball.miraheze.org/wiki/Blanquism Him]...
 
== Further Information ==
== Further Information ==
=== Literature ===
=== Literature ===

Revision as of 17:02, 24 November 2022

De Leonism, occasionally known as Marxism–De Leonism, is a form of unionist Marxism[1] developed by Daniel De Leon. De Leon combined the rising theories of American unionism in his time with Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination orthodox Marxism. According to De Leonist theory, militant industrial unions (specialized trade unions) are the vehicle of class struggle. Industrial Unions serving the interests of the proletariat (working class) will bring about the change needed to establish a socialist system. However, in difference from other lib-left ideologies, De Leonism also believes in a political party that should, if possible, get to power by democratic elections and when in power, the unions and workers will take control of society peacefully through the passive revolution - a revolution that will be bloodless, because there isnt a state opposing this revolution. When this happens, the state will pretty quickly be unnecessary and will disintegrate itself.


History

De Leon settled in New York City, studying at Columbia University. He was a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Georgist socialist during the 1886 Mayoral campaign of Henry George and in 1890 joined the Socialist Labor Party, becoming the editor of its newspaper, The People. De Leon became a Marxist in the late 1880s, and argued for the revolutionary overthrow of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination capitalism, trying to divert the SLP away from its Lassallian outlook.

De Leon was highly critical of the trade union movement in America and described the craft-oriented American Federation of Labor as the "American Separation of Labor". At this early stage in De Leon's development, there was still a considerable remnant of the general unionist Knights of Labor in existence, and the SLP worked within it until being driven out. This resulted in the formation of the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance (ST&LA) in 1895, which was dominated by the SLP.

By the early 20th Century, the SLP was declining in numbers, with first the Social Democratic Party and then the Socialist Party of America becoming the leading leftist political force in America (as these splinter groups embraced capitalist reforms). De Leon was an important figure in the US labor movement, and in 1904 he attended the International Socialist Congress, held in Amsterdam. Under the influence of the American Labor Union (ALU), he changed his politics around this time to put more focus on industrial unionism, and the ballot as a purely destructive weapon, in contrast to his earlier view of political organization as 'sword' and industrial union as 'shield'. He worked with the ALU in the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1905. His participation in this organization was short-lived and acrimonious. After DeLeon's death, his ideology was carried on by the SLP with little success, although they had a brief moment in the 60s when disaffected left wing youth were looking for a party to join, the "dogmatic" leadership eventually caused most of that membership to drift away (they even alienated multi-time Presidential candidate Eric Hass into leaving the party). By the time their national office closed in 2008, they had a grand total of 77 members. However, De Leonism has found new life in the Brazilian social democratic Democratic Labour Party, in which it forms a considerable minority.

Variants

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Impossibilism

Impossibilism is a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Marxist, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination libertarian left, anti-reformist, and revolutionarily spontaneous ideology. Impossibilists hold that any Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination reforms to ameliorate social ills in Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination capitalism are ultimately futile since it believes immediate reforms strengthen capitalism instead of achieving Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination socialism in the long term. Adherents to this ideology support structural changes instead of evolutionary reforms like many Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination democratic socialists. They also believe that spontaneous revolutionary actions are the only viable method to achieve a socialist society. Because of this, impossibilists oppose vanguardism and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination democratic centralism in Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Leninism. The idea of impossibilism was brought up by Daniel De Leon, American Marxist theoretician, though he did not coin the term.

Personality

De Leonists are rare on the net (due to the younger ones closing in on age 80), but once you find one, you'll find out that they're comparable to syndicalists; a huge love for industrial unionism, the arming of workers for defense, and will tend to think of the gool 'ol days when trade unionist socialist parties used to be popular (compared to our time). De Leonists are chill with most Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination LeftComs and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarchists, on the other hand, they're usually are very critical of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination "bureaucratic state despotists" and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination "bourgeois socialists." This is because of both ideologies inability to lead a true workers revolution with either an elitist vanguard party or trying to reform capitalism, respectively.

How to Draw

Flag of De Leonism
  1. Draw a circle.
  2. Fill it with red.
  3. Draw a yellow circle inside.
  4. Draw a silhouette of a muscular arm holding a hammer in yellow (#D8C306) inside the circle and fill the silhouette in.
Color Name HEX RGB
Red #C9261F 201, 38, 31
Yellow #D8C306 216, 195, 6


Relations

Friends

Frenemies

Enemies

Further Information

Literature

Wikipedia

Gallery

  • Social Syndicalism

    Social Syndicalism

  • Social Syndicalism

    Social Syndicalism

  • Social Syndicalism

    Social Syndicalism

  • Social Syndicalism (alt)

    Social Syndicalism (alt)

  • Impossibilism

    Impossibilism

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  1. ↑ https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1909/3.htm
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