text: I should have added my parents' reaction: "Learn everything you can. Think for yourself. You'll figure it out." I had no idea that my mother's prosperous farmer family in Ireland supported the labor movement and the Dublin General Strike of 1913, or that my mother's niece had married, in Paris, an editor of the Encyclopedia of Anarchy (anarcho-syndicalism). 
  
  Anarcho-syndicaism was a left wing movement that believed in and practiced direct worker ownership of the means of production as opposed to capitalist monarchical proprietorship or capitalist absentee investor ownership or government or party ownership of the means of production. In the Spanish Civil War the Communists, conformists to the Soviet model, came to believe that the anarcho-syndicalists were even greater enemies of the working class than capitalist or fascists.
  
  Later, using Catholic Social Teaching, a priest helped the poor people of Mondragon (Basque) to form what have grown into successful worker owned businesses.