Anarchists and socialists. 1. United States labour organisation

 The US labour organisation model is built on the anarcho-syndicalist model of the 'one-in,all-in' and 'the 'all-or-nothing' organisational schema. It bases its revolutionary plans on sectoral strikes to gain industrial predominance. 

For that reason,Reagan called left-wing politics the 'domino theory'. (His ideas are mocked by US songsters whose love of 'horse' and cocaine is fuelled by the Italian and black mafia).

In addition,it must be said to the naif,US trade unionism often combines craft-style trade unionism with a strong admixture of 'business unionism'.

 Of those two strands,company unionism forms croney deals with employers. Such backdoor arrangements are the deals so abhorred by workers everywhere and so adored by Catholic journalists and clergymen. Business unionism flies in the face of transparency, universality and evenness.

 The original model of company unionism is the Union of Automotive Workers drive for recruits at Ford Motor Company in the decades of industrial unrest. That Thirties alternative to hammering out a 'fair deal' was in a decentralised manner the opposite to the semi-authoritarian model based on the Todt organisation (or German Labour Front) of the Nazis. (Hitler wanted to get the unemployed back to work by having them build roads but he could not afford to pay the 'union' rate of pay).

Of the free approach to labour organisation, its roots lie  in the labour disturbances preceding the great war disturbances which combined US iconoclasm with violent retibution and breakdown. Those disturbances bring to mind the aforementioned anarcho-syndicalist approach. That had has its origins in the unionism of Sacco and Vanzetti and De Leon and Brumsey and Connolly. 

The working agenda of both anarcho-syndicalism and totalitarian labour organisation was self-regulating bodies in separate industries. 

Because the US has always been a capitalist society,all efforts at any type of labour organisation are rejected by the US Establishment as being restrictive practices which hamper capital  accumulation. Establishment figures and business unionism leaders slate the trades unions with the aim of overthrowing their democratic leaders.

Masters and servants

Today in the US,the "masters" are not shareholders or big business magnates but rather vulture funds and financial conglomerates looking for profit and surplus value from the relatively diminishing Continental US industrial, commercial and domestic stocks of labour and capital. In this regard,it does to remember that capital is often fixed to a time and location.

The US and Ireland. Connolly 

Connolly copied the US syndicalist motto of convergence into ONE BIG UNION and brought the model of syndicalism to Dublin in his efforts towards economic and political organisation of the Irish industrial working class.

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It bears reputition to say that the modern US labour movement is the product of anarcho-syndicalism,not democratic socialism. 

The socialists are grouped in the Democratic Socialists of America and profess no economic allegiance in the sense that they promote socialist trade unions.

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The Chinese realise that the US is multiform and a conglomerate,a federation.

The US attracts immigrants inspired to tap into a large and diverse land of freedoms and opportunities.

The federation of the US offers difference and diversity and the permanence of change and constant renewal.

The US at one stage aimed at a French Departmental system but it found out that its federation can only exist as a reasonably disunited whole.

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The Chinese perspective 

The Chinese admire the US and ape its wealthy benefices.

The Chinese worldview is shaped by their students and emigrants experiences of the US. 

In China's developing confusion it wants to unite disparate elements in a more-or-less harmonious unity. They call this opposites-attract world a multi-polar world.