A review by jpowerj
Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rocker

5.0

Such a great introduction to Anarcho-Syndicalism. This is really what I was looking for when I read Guerin's "Anarchism". Literally covers all the bases that someone interested in AS would be interested in learning about: organizational precepts, a history of movements across the world, in-depth descriptions of how syndicalism differs from other socialist tendencies, and all along written with such an incredible passion for what he's describing that it's hard not to become excited about the possibilities of the movement, even today almost 80 years since he wrote it. Really my only issue with the book is it can seem to be redundant in parts and perhaps in some parts it can feel like he's harping on the same ideas over and over again, but that's actually probably a good thing in retrospect, since there are some very deep ideas here that I personally probably benefited from mulling over for a while. All in all, this is the book I'd recommend to people interested in learning about Anarcho-Syndicalism as a tendency separate from other general left-libertarian and socialist tendencies.