Can one be an anarcho syndicalist without seeing anarcho communism as the end goal?

Question

I am new to ideas of anarchy.

Can anarcho- syndicalism be both a means and an end goal?

What would replace the courts, police and prisons in such a society?

Comments

I hope someone more familiar with anarcho-syndicalism can address the particulars of this.

As I understand anarcho-syndicalism there are some distinct differences with anarcho-communism. Where as a-c is based on the idea of everything being communized and evenly distributed, a-s is based on workers at particular points of production working collectively and in collective effort with other workers at other points of production. I am not sure if the distinction is clear, which is why this is a comment.

Also, if you gave an anarcho-syndicalist and an anarcho-communist a knife and told them they had to fight it out for their ideology, they'd probably end up being friends and being executed by the cheka, but that is anecdotal.

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If you recently discovered the idea of anarchy, perhaps focusing on your last question..."What would replace the courts, police and prisons in such a society?" will help more than trying to relate other "isms" (syndicalism, communism).....

because anarchy (without other qualifiers) implies the absence, disregard, or destruction of those coercive institutions....a way of relating without a prescription for "replacing" authoritarian systems.

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ingrate, i want to upvote your reply!

Answer 1

You can be anything you want to be. The only time you need to ask whether you can "be" anything else is when there's some intellectual/authority who tells you that you can't,

To me, anarcho-communism and anarcho-syndicalism are pretty similar, the only difference being that anarcho-sydicalism was a name given to a specific type of unionizing in a specific period of history based on anarchism.

Answer 2

my understanding is that anarchosyndicalism is about a way to organize, and has little to do with a post-revolutionary vision (except, of course, in the way that the means creates the ends). so yes, anarchosyndicalists don't have to be anarchocommunists.