dislike of things socialism, instead preferring to find some way the workers took control. Not the industrialists, not the government, and they even disagreed on ownership. The communists even wrote letters back to their handlers telling them they could not work with these IWW folks. 
What they agreed on was that the workers in the one big union, the industrial union, should control labor, it's application and destiny.
But business, the government, and the business union conspired to kill off the IWW, using their anti-war stance to brush them with socialism and communism, and prison terms to stop their work.
"They both get taken over by oligarchs in the end." < Because they were destroyed, and quit fighting. Many were killed off or jailed, many others said they were going to join the opposition AFL Business Union, and try to change it from the inside.
They gave up the fight for control for a promise of future work and prosperity, perceived comfort. They have never been stronger than they were then.
Until the fight begins again and disrupts business as usual, nothing will change.
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