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C·L·N·R

The Syndicalist

collective · decentralized · national · rupture

Libertarian socialism

The union, not the party, is the unit — and the workplace is taken directly rather than legislated into public hands. The state is not the prize. It is the obstacle.

What the four letters mean

C Ownershipcollectivenot private (P)
L Controldecentralizednot centralized (A)
N Horizonnationalnot internationalist (I)
R Methodrupturenot gradual (G)

Where this has shown up

HistoricallyThe IWW, the CNT before 1936, anarcho-syndicalism, the general-strike tradition.

All sixteen

Columns: collective → private. Within each half, internationalist then national.

CAIRThe Permanent Revolutionary CANRThe Vanguard PAIRThe Shock Therapist PANRThe Strongman CAIGThe World Planner CANGThe Planner PAIGThe Technocrat PANGThe National Conservative CLIRThe Anarchist CLNRThe Syndicalist PLIRThe Exit Capitalist PLNRThe Secessionist CLIGThe Commoner CLNGThe Municipalist PLIGThe Free Trader PLNGThe Classical Liberal

Rows: centralized → decentralized. Within each half, rupture then gradual.

This page is not a diagnosis

The Syndicalist is a box, and a box is a compression. It keeps the sign of each score and throws away the magnitude — so two people filed here can sit at opposite ends of it, and somebody two points the other side of a cut line has more in common with this type than with their own. The four axes are real. The lines drawn across them are a decision somebody made.

The point

Cutline will tell you the margin it used to hand you each of your four letters — including when one of them was a coin toss. That is the part every other sixteen-type system leaves out.

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