funnily enough, going by the definition of commewnism (as opposed to socialism) provided by The Manifesto, the iww is a commewnist movement
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marx & engels at one point identified commewnism as a movement of the working class, where the working class is the leading actor of the revolution, as opposed to what they called socialism, which was a movement of the supposedly Enlightened trying to convince the powerful to be nice
@aescling how much of that semantic shift is the wobs own doing
@Lady i feel like the answer is "not much tbh" but it’s a fair question!
anyway this is what we mean by “semantic shift” as, given what commewnism means today for leftists, calling the wobs commies would be ludicrous