De Leonism on the 12 Axes

Daniel De Leon, a Curaçao-born lecturer who led the Socialist Labor Party of America from the 1890s until his death in 1914, argued that workers need two arms: a political party to win elections and dismantle the capitalist state, and socialist industrial unions, organized by whole industries, to take over and manage production. Once in power, the unions would replace geographic government with an industrial administration, with delegates elected from each workplace up to a national congress. He also helped found the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905. De Leonism differs from Leninism by rejecting a vanguard party and armed insurrection, from anarcho-syndicalism by insisting on the ballot, and from democratic socialism by refusing gradual reforms within capitalism.

• Democratic Socialism 84%Democratic socialism aims to replace capitalism with social ownership of the economy, reached and governed through elections, civil liberties and multiparty democracy instead of revolution or one-party rule.
• Marxism 80%Marxism is the body of theory begun by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that explains history through class struggle and expects capitalism to give way to a classless, communist society.
• Anarcho-Syndicalism 80%Anarcho-syndicalism seeks to abolish capitalism and the state through revolutionary labor unions, using the general strike and direct action, so that federated unions run the economy afterward.
• Eurocommunism 79%Eurocommunism was a current within Western European communist parties in the 1970s that sought socialism through parliamentary democracy and independence from the Soviet Union.