Talk:Workerism

Syndicalism
I'm not really prepared to just gut the whole article and if I put a POV tag on every page involving politics I actually thought had POV issues it'd be all I did with my time, but this section has serious problems. It is clearly presenting a political position, without so much as citing an outside polemic.

Also, I think the article in general understates the debate about "workerism" coming out of Leninist traditions, where the criticism is based on the idea of something like "vulgar economism". I think part of the issue is that "syndicalists" (at least those described) and Leninists use different definitions of the term, so their mutual accusations of it don't necessarily mean what they would at face value. I think Leninists basically syndicalism as workerist by definition, see a lot of the same problems with syndicalism as they do with workerism, and think that syndicalists just don't see these as problems. --Jammoe (talk) 23:04, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Notability?
I don't see how this philosophy can be considered to be not notable when basically every Trotskyist faction and tendency is included in Wikipedia (as they should be IMO). The article needs to be better, but the topic is indisputably notable. 72.105.78.189 (talk) 01:30, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I agree completely. I'm removing that template. Charles Essie (talk) 16:45, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Other meanings
This article now focuses solely on operaismo, ignoring other uses of the term. These include: BobFromBrockley (talk) 17:49, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
 * The use of the term by Lenin and other orthodox Marxists to describe a deviation from Marxist orthodoxy that over-emphasises working-class culture and identity. E.g. from a Trotskyist journal article: Workerism is, in essence, the tendency to champion working class characteristics over all others... Lenin opposed the workerism of the 1920s American communist and socialist movement on the basis that it ignored the oppression of the black workers, and that it thereby contributed to the atomization and weakening of the proletarian movement as a whole. Or this discussion of STalin's policies in the 1930s. Or from a South African Communist Party organ from the 1980s: Workerism is an ideology that has existed at different times in different parts of the world. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, workerism was one of the false approaches that the new, international workers’ movement had to deal with and criticize. There were many important debates within workers’ parties, trade unions and later with national liberation movements concerning workerism. We in South Africa can learn a great deal from a study of these historical criticisms. In this article we will be more concerned with local versions of workerism.
 * Other currents within Marxism that have used the term positively, including:
 * The Workers' Opposition and its descendants. See e.g. this description of workers' cells in 1920s Russia: This underground form of left-wing "workerism," which emerged in 1922, was the direct precursor of the Workers' Group of 1923 that consisted of factory activists and former members of the Workers' Opposition and was influential among metal workers. Another underground faction associated with the utopian Proletarian Culture movement, the Workers' Truth group, was also active in Moscow at this time.
 * The Worker-Communist or Hekmatist parties in Iran and Iraq, whose pages list "workerism" as their ideology in the infobox
 * FOSATU