De Leonism

De Leonism lies outside the Leninism tradition of communism.

Daniel Bell detected the influence of De Leonism in its ideology.

De Leonism would thus reorganize the national government along industrial lines with representatives elected by industry, not by geographic location.

Despite their rejection of Leninism and vanguardism, De Leonism also lies outside the "democratic socialist" and "social democratic" tradition.

The League had sympathies with De Leonism, primarily represented in Britain by the Socialist Labour Party.

De Leonism's stance against reformism means that it is referred to by the label 'impossibilist', along with the Socialist Party of Great Britain.

De Leonism, occasionally known as Marxism-Deleonism, is a form of syndicalist Marxism developed by Daniel De Leon.

Golden jubilee of De Leonism, 1890-1940: Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Socialist labor party.

The concept of impossibilism - though not the specific term - was introduced and heavily influenced by the American Marxist theoretician Daniel De Leon, on the basis of theory that De Leon generated before his interest in syndicalism began (see De Leonism).

Syndicalism is also used to refer to the tactic of bringing about this social arrangement, typically expounded by anarcho-syndicalism and De Leonism, in which a general strike begins and workers seize their means of production and organise in a federation of trade unionism, such as the CNT.

It predates Leninism as De Leonism's principles developed in the early 1890s with De Leon's assuming leadership of the Socialist Labor Party; Leninism and its vanguard party idea took shape after the 1902 publication of Lenin's What Is to Be Done?

These include the followers of Joseph Dietzgen in the 19th century, syndicalism, Jan Wacław Machajski, De Leonism, and council communism in the first half of the 20th century, and the Situationist International and Autonomist Marxism in the second half of the 20th century.

He published How to End Capitalism and Inaugurate Socialism and Why War is Near in 1931; during the 1930s he decreased in relevance and has been described by Ian Turner as "a cantankerous stump orator, preaching the truths of De Leonism to a dwindling handful of the converted".