What’s wrong with syndicalism? I was watching Thomas Sankara: the upright man, and he specifically said down with anarcho-syndicalism. They seem to be one of the more decent strains of anarchism, the USSR supported them in Catalonia, maybe it’s my bias as someone who was introduced to Marxism through syndicalism, but I can’t see much wrong with them. Is it a lack of materialist analysis?
“Anarchist” Catalonia, despite its claimed adherence to Anarcho-Syndicalist ideology, was actually a highly centralized Socialist state. The main labor unions in Catalonia effectively formed a new government (that is, a dictatorship of the proletariat, not Communism as Anarchists effectively desire).
Remember, you cannot proceed into Communism without first proceeding into Socialism. The state will need to exist under Socialism to repress the bourgeoisie and defend the proletarian government from Capitalist invasions. Stalin correctly noted this with his theory of the aggravation of the class struggle along with the development of socialism.
This is the mistake Left-communists and Anarchists make; thinking that Socialism and Communism are one in the same, despite history suggesting literally everything against that notion.
I have heard a very, very different take of Catalonia, and their very anarchist related failures. Let me find an exert I remember…