Political Science · Political Theory
Which form of socialism stood for 'socialism without the state'?
AFabianism
BRevisionism
CSyndicalism ✓ Correct
DGerman Social Democracy
Correct answer: (C) Syndicalism — Syndicalism stood for socialism without the state, so the answer is syndicalism.
Explanation
★Syndicalism stood for socialism without the state, so the answer is syndicalism.
★Syndicalism wants workers to control production directly through their trade unions or syndicates.
★It rejects the political state and parliamentary action in favour of industrial action.
★Its chief weapon is the revolutionary general strike to seize the means of production.
★Georges Sorel theorised the myth of the general strike in Reflections on Violence.
★Fabianism and German Social Democracy, by contrast, work through the state and parliament.
★Revisionism too sought gradual reform within the existing democratic state.
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