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Utopia - Anarchosyndicalism

Before getting into the statecraft of my utopia, I need to make clear one point: If you can control language, you can control the world. That being said, a principal function of the social body of my anarchosyndicalist utopia will be to take charge of certain terms like wage, employment, owner, value, the State, and rework their accepted definitions under late capitalism into more egalitarian uses. What is specifically entailed in this process of deconstruction is the gradual breakdown of the relations of employer to employee to the point where the culture finds no distinction between the two, because everyone would be both. The result is a new society of democratically self-managed workers whose subsistence does not rely on a system of wage labor; the worker's surplus value remaining under his control. Because there are no owners of the means of production in my utopia, individual workers themselves own the tools they require. "Public goods" and other socially-necessary large-scale assets (such as power plants, refineries, and grain-harvesting equipment) will be managed by federations of owner-workers. Any persons or movements who seek to re-establish a hegemony on workers' relations will be met with revolutionary violence, as advocated by Georges Sorel (Jennings, 1985). Benjamin Franklin said that the primary purpose of the state is "to protect property from the majority," and as such the state has no part to play in my utopia.

Anarchosyndicalism.net. (2008). "Defining Anarchosyndicalism." Retrieved January 29, 2010 from http://www.anarchosyndicalism.net/faq/1c.htm.

Jennings, JR. (1985). Georges Sorel: The Character and Development of his Thought. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

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