Socialism from Below
| Date: | 1997 |
|---|---|
| Organisation: | Workers' Solidarity Movement |
| Type: | Leaflet |
| View: | View Document |
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Commentary From The Cedar Lounge Revolution
12th May 2025
Many thanks to the person who forwarded this to the Archive.
This short leaflet from the Worker’s Solidarity Movement focuses on the issue of Socialism Below. This it argues is socialism where there is direct democracy, delegation and the extension of democracy into the workplace. It continues:
The only real guarantee of personal freedom is a non-exploitative, non hierarchical and collectively run system. The only way to create this is to hard wire it in to the struggle for socialism from the very start.
Other pieces critique the Russian Revolution, Trotsky’s views on the principle of ‘compulsory labour’ and and interestingly the Socialist Workers Party in Britain. This is also use to critique the Irish SWP.
The document concludes with the thought:
These four pages can only begin such a discussion, our hope is that people will seek to educate themselves further and in doing so discover the real tradition of ‘Socialism from below’, and that is anarchism.
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