Antisystemic

  Errico Malatesta was an Italian Anarchist and revolutionary who toured Europe in political exile agitating for a radical answer to society's problems. He came to reject republicanism for essentially the same reason that Marx rejects when he says that the right of the stronger prevails in constitutional republics. Malatesta was the Anarchist's Anarchist. As such his name carries major weight among contemporary Anarchists with any connection to historical Anarchist thought. In some quarters the name 'syndicalism' carries an inverse, negative weight. Syndicalism, it is maintained, is just one of the old tactics of the old labor movement. It slowly collects dust on the trash heap of history, no more interesting than Leninist vanguardism, or social democratic reformism, or bog-standard trade unionism. How nice it is then, for those who see syndicalism as one of the oldest of old hats, that Malatesta, during his time, produced two critiques of syndicalism from an Anarchist