Editing Syndicalism (section)

=== Gender ===
[[File:Elizabeth Gurley Flynn point.jpg|thumb|left|170px|[[Elizabeth Gurley Flynn]], a Wobbly organizer]]
Syndicalist policies on gender issues were mixed. The CNT did not admit women as members until 1918. The CGT dismissed feminism as a bourgeois movement. Syndicalists were mostly indifferent to the question of [[women's suffrage]]. [[Elizabeth Gurley Flynn]], an IWW organizer, insisted that women "find their power at the point of production where they work" rather than at the ballot box.{{Sfn|Darlington|2008|pp=105–106}} Of the 230 delegates present at the founding of Canada's One Big Union, a mere 3 were women. When a female radical criticized the masculinist atmosphere at the meeting, she was rebuffed by men who insisted that labor only concern itself with class rather than gender issues.{{Sfn|McCallum|1998|pp=15–16}} The historian Todd McCallum concludes that syndicalists in the OBU advocated values of "radical manhood".{{Sfn|McCallum|1998|p=41}}

[[File:Baginski, Was will der Syndikalismus?.jpg|thumb|Cover of "Was will der Syndikalismus?" ("What does Syndicalism want?"), a pamphlet written by [[Max Baginski]] and published by German syndicalists]]
Francis Shor argues that the "IWW promotion of sabotage represents a kind of masculine posturing which directly challenged the individualizing techniques of power mobilized by industrial capitalism". Thus, "the IWW's masculine identity incorporated features of working-class solidarity and protest ... through 'virile' syndicalism." For example, while defending a black fellow worker against a racist insult, an IWW organizer in Louisiana insisted that "he is a man, a union man, an IWW—a MAN! ... and he has proven it by his action." During World War I, one of the IWW's [[anti-war]] slogans was "Don't Be a Soldier! Be a Man!"{{Sfn|Shor|1999|pp=67–68, 73}} In some cases, syndicalist attitudes towards women changed. In 1901, the CGT's agricultural union in southern France was hostile to women; by 1909, this had changed. The CNT, initially hostile to independent women's organizations, worked closely with the libertarian feminist organization {{lang|es|[[Mujeres Libres]]}} during the Spanish Civil War.{{Sfn|Gemie|1996|p=433}} According to the historian Sharif Gemie, the male orientation of parts of the syndicalist labor movement reflected the ideas of the anarchist [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]], who defended patriarchy because women, of their own accord, are "chained to nature".{{Sfn|Gemie|1996|pp=422–424}}
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