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Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈<p>This whole thing has been spinning around in my head and I just had to share them stories before disappearing again. </p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/114848469083606916" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/</span><span class="invisible">114848469083606916</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115023734177792281" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/</span><span class="invisible">115023734177792281</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115023700543005929" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/</span><span class="invisible">115023700543005929</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115023656385214303" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/</span><span class="invisible">115023656385214303</span></a></p><p>Thanks, Mastodon, for being a space where open conversation thrives, free from heavy-handed censorship, a place where freedom still lives on.</p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Syndicalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Syndicalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/AnarchoSyndicalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnarchoSyndicalism</span></a></p>
Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈<p>Some people I know in real life will not even read a basic Wikipedia article, and it shows.</p><p>Even just the surface level will tell you anarcho‑syndicalism is rooted in worker self‑management, democratic participation, and organizations run by their own members. That is the core, no bosses, no central authority, just the people who do the work making the decisions together.</p><p>That is why I am drawn to it and to any group built on the same principles. When someone calls anarcho‑syndicalism authoritarian, it is obvious they have not read a thing or they are twisting it on purpose.</p><p>If you want to at least know what it is before talking, start here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-</span><span class="invisible">syndicalism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Syndicalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Syndicalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/AnarchoSyndicalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnarchoSyndicalism</span></a></p>
Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈<p>I’m not going to apologize for what I want my society and local community to look like because this matters to me deeply. I actually love working and being productive, but I like it less when I have no real say in how things are run at my workplace. It is not that I have anything personal against my boss, but the problem comes when they make critical decisions that affect my day-to-day life at work and I have no meaningful influence over those decisions. That lack of real input or control makes me respect them less and feel disconnected from the work I do.</p><p>What anarcho-syndicalism has taught me is that we do not need rigid hierarchies or top-down control to run a workplace effectively. Instead, workplaces can be run democratically, directly by the workers themselves, for the benefit of those workers and the community. This means the people who do the work make the decisions about how work is organized, what the priorities are, and how the workday and workweek are shaped. It is about real workers’ control, where democratic assemblies and elected representatives, who are accountable and recallable at any time, ensure nobody has unchecked power.</p><p>If a workplace is run this way, I have the ability to shape my own workday with my coworkers, working through collective decision-making that reflects everyone’s needs and interests. This is what I want to see in every part of my life, a workplace that is free from rigid hierarchies, where decisions are made collectively and locally, alongside an anarcho-syndicalist union that connects workers horizontally. It is about building solidarity and cooperation from the ground up, not about waiting for orders to come from bosses or outside authorities.</p><p>That kind of system shows that workplaces can be self-managed with transparency, and true democratic participation. It challenges the idea that bosses must hold all the power and shows instead that workers are more than capable of running things in a way that benefits all of us.</p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Syndicalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Syndicalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/AnarchoSyndicalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnarchoSyndicalism</span></a></p>
Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈<p>Some people I actually know in real life keep trying to tell me that anarcho-syndicalism is something it’s not, and honestly it’s frustrating. I’m not living it every single day or pretending to be some perfect authority, but I’ve read enough and I understand it better than most. The problem is when someone either can’t be bothered to read the basics or just twists it on purpose to make me seem wrong. That’s not a difference of opinion, that’s either ignorance or straight up lying.</p><p>You can’t have an honest conversation if the facts aren’t even on the table. When people I know choose to distort what anarcho-syndicalism actually is, it stops being discussion and turns into them denying reality because it’s easier than admitting they don’t know, or they’re wrong. We can still be friends, but if you’re in my life and you come at me with half-truths or fabrications, I’m not just going to nod along. I know better.</p><p>Since you’re obviously not going to read an anarchist library, here are some trustworthy sources you can actually check out. If you want to understand what anarcho-syndicalism really is, start with Store Norske Leksikon and Wikipedia.</p><p><a href="https://no.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarkosyndikalisme" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">no.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarko</span><span class="invisible">syndikalisme</span></a></p><p><a href="https://snl.no/anarko-syndikalisme" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">snl.no/anarko-syndikalisme</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Take a look for yourself instead of twisting things to convince me I’m wrong.</p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Syndicalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Syndicalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/AnarchoSyndicalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnarchoSyndicalism</span></a></p>
acbAnarchosyndicalist Moomins, Stockholm<br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/sticker?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sticker</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/anarchism?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#anarchism</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Anarchosyndicalism?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anarchosyndicalism</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/moomin?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#moomin</a>
Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈<p>My family keeps mixing up anarcho-syndicalism with Communism (Marxism-Leninism), and honestly, I find that pretty funny because those two are entirely different things.</p><p>Anarcho-syndicalism is about workers running things for themselves, directly and democratically, without bosses or a state above them. Workers organize into unions and federate from the ground up, making all big decisions through assemblies and direct votes, not by handing power to politicians or a small elite. There are no vanguard parties, no rulers, everyone has a real say. That’s a big reason I’m drawn to it: it’s based on&nbsp;actual grassroots democracy&nbsp;and minimizes hierarchies as much as possible.</p><p>Marxism-Leninism (Communism), on the other hand, believes in a strong, centralized state led by a “vanguard party”, a small group of professional revolutionaries claiming to act for the working class. This party takes over after a revolution, keeps tight control over politics, industry, and most parts of daily life, and justifies suppressing dissent by saying it’s “for the revolution.” The idea is that eventually the state "withers away," but in practice the state usually gets stronger and sticks around, leading to bureaucratic rule and a pretty undemocratic system, historically speaking. Critics, especially anarchists, call this authoritarian, saying it replaces one ruling class with another, just with different bosses.</p><p>It always cracks me up that my family can’t tell these apart: anarcho-syndicalism is about bottom-up power and direct democracy, while Marxism-Leninism is about top-down control and party rule. They literally disagree on who should have power and how society should be organized. Mixing them up is like confusing a town hall meeting with a military command structure.</p><p><a href="https://peertube.wtf/w/evs6FPAScfEdW9bGwxmtcn" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">peertube.wtf/w/evs6FPAScfEdW9b</span><span class="invisible">Gwxmtcn</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarch</span><span class="invisible">o-syndicalism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxis</span><span class="invisible">m%E2%80%93Leninism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/MarxismLeninism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarxismLeninism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Syndicalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Syndicalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/AnarchoSyndicalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnarchoSyndicalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchy</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marxism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Leninism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Leninism</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History July 30, 2006: Murray Bookchin died. He was an anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, social theorist, libertarian socialist, and founder of social ecology. He published over two dozen books. In the 1990s, disillusioned by the increasingly “apolitical, lifestylism” of mainstream anarchism, he stopped calling himself an anarchist and founded his own libertarian socialist ideology that he called “communalism,” which sought to combine elements of Marxism and anarchosyndicalism. His ideas, more generally, have influenced numerous movements, including the New Left, anti-nuclear, Occupy Wall Street, and the People Defense Units (YPG) and the Rojava Kurdish Autonomous Region of Syria. In 1988, along with Howie Hawkins, he cofounded the Left-Green Network, as a radical alternative to the liberal Greens, with a focus on Social Ecology and Libertarian Municipalism. His critique of Deep Ecology, popular among many in the radical Earth First! Movement, led many Earth Firsters to refer to him as Bernie Munchkin. He rejected the popular view of Barry Commoner and Paul Ehrlich that the environmental crisis was caused by technology or overpopulation, or human nature, but was rather the product of capitalism, its “grow or die imperative,” and its emphasis on profit or human life and security.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/murrybookchin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>murrybookchin</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/libertarianmunicipalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libertarianmunicipalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchosyndicalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchosyndicalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/kurdish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kurdish</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rojava</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/earthfirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>earthfirst</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmentalcrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmentalcrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ypg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ypg</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>syria</span></a></p>
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The reason I started posting about my love for working is pretty simple: someone told me anarcho-syndicalists are out here “forcing” people to work. Honestly? If that was true, I couldn’t care less.

I post because I genuinely love the idea of collaborating with others, having an actual say in what I do, and shaping my day alongside my fellow workers.

I want to see real democracy and self-management at work, not bosses compelling workers without their consent.

I'm #ActuallyAutistic, and I want to see a worker-controlled community where the labor process isn’t dictated by rigid hierarchies or managers running some Taylorist algorithm. Imagine abolishing those antiquated top-down structures and running things through federated councils, real participatory democracy, not just a suggestion box theater.

My ideal workday would be one where I’ve got agency over what I do because I’m collaborating with comrades in the union, actively practicing collective self-management, and making decisions by consensus (shoutout to all the meeting minutes, voting procedures, and all the Parecon spreadsheets). Work allocation rotates, responsibilities are balanced, and nobody’s stuck optimizing a Gantt chart for someone else’s profit margin.

With rigid hierarchies intact, there’s no meaningful praxis of democracy. It’s always a one-way mirror, decisions handed down, labor alienated, surplus value siphoned off to distant capital. The material outcomes of our work should strengthen our community, not some absentee shareholders whose only connection to our lives is a quarterly earnings call.

Do I enjoy working? Definitely. But in a world built on genuine worker self-management, where we plan, balance, and carry out decisions together, I’d enjoy it just a little bit more.

Hi! I’m an anarcho-syndicalist, gender-fluid, bisexual, and autistic individual living in Bergen, Norway, and I love Debian and GrapheneOS, and I wanted to reintroduce myself for all the new followers I’ve gotten in the past few weeks.

I like to be clear and specific, so here’s a structured list:

- Activism: Syndicalist (Anarcho-syndicalism)
- Gender: Fluid (changes, not fixed)
- Sexuality: Bisexual (attracted to more than one gender)
- Neurotype: Autistic (diagnosed, not just self-identified)

I also communicate visually in picture format on #Pixelfed.

Find me here:
@midtsveen@pixelfed.social

I have nothing against my boss, but when they make critical decisions that affect my day-to-day life at work and I don't have any real influence over what shapes my workday, I like them less.

I'm not saying life is perfect, but syndicalism has taught me that we don't need rigid hierarchies to run a workplace democratically, by the workers, for the workers, and for their own benefit.

If run democratically, I can shape my own workday and workweek together with my coworkers, and that is what I want to see, a democratically run workplace where no rigid hierarchies exist, and where it is run democratically alongside an anarcho-syndicalist union.

There are days when autism feels overwhelming, and I find myself oversharing every thought and feeling that comes to mind.

But then, just as suddenly, my mood can shift. I’ll feel a surge of energy and want to shake things up.

That’s when I dive into my collection of anarchism memes and start posting my latest finds for everyone to enjoy!

We are here, unapologetically autistic and proud, and we refuse to be silenced!