Erik Midtsveen🧩🏳️⚧️🏴☮🕉<p>I hate waiting two years between elections. You wait for the elections to come, even though there are urgent issues that need attention. Then you vote, wait to see who gets elected, wait for them to take office, and hope they will pass the laws you want. If things don’t work out, you have to wait for the next election and go through the whole process again.</p><p>In Norway, parliamentary elections happen every four years, and municipal are held every four years as well, with a two-year gap between them, which means there are long gaps between opportunities to influence important decisions. Syndicalism offers a different approach. It is a movement where workers organize themselves into unions that directly manage their workplaces and communities. These unions make decisions through local assemblies where everyone involved has a voice, and they coordinate with other unions in federations while keeping power at the local level.</p><p>Anarcho-syndicalism builds on this by rejecting bosses, governments, and political parties, believing that workers should have full control over their workplaces and communities without interference from authorities. Decisions are made in local meetings that can be held whenever necessary, whether that is weekly, tomorrow, or only when urgent issues arise. People vote on matters that directly affect their lives and address their real needs, rather than waiting for national elections where their influence is limited.</p><p>By putting decision-making power into the hands of local communities and workers, syndicalism avoids the long delays that come with traditional elections. It aims to replace capitalism and the wage system with a society based on mutual-aid, solidarity, and equality. Resources and goods are distributed according to people’s actual needs, not based on profit, and that creates a fairer system where everyone shares responsibility and power equally, and where decisions are made by those who are directly affected.</p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Syndicalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Syndicalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/AnarchoSyndicalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnarchoSyndicalism</span></a></p>