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You should read the book, it explains pretty clearly the problems as he saw it, in his part of spain. In fighting, incompetence and dis-unity, presented with a
by KaiserPro 11y ago
You should read the book, it explains pretty clearly the problems as he saw it, in his part of spain.
In fighting, incompetence and dis-unity, presented with a well trained and cohesive enemy meant that it all fell apart.
- pessimizer 11y agoThat's not at all the impression I got from the book. What I got from the book is that the battle against Franco was taken up by good people doing their best, and were undermined by the Communists and ignored by the western powers until they were destroyed by the Fascists.
- KaiserPro 11y agoThe entire anti-facist movement (communist, anarchist, socialist and unionist) were ignored by france and great britian. They basically wanted a nice simple government to "do buisness" with. A democratic/$other government wouldn't be easy to trade with (i.e. buy train systems.)
- vidarh 11y agoThey were undermined by the Stalinists. There were communists fighting in Spain who were just as much under fire (as in, actually getting murdered) by Stalinist agents as the anarchists were.
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoIt's worth going to "Why Orwell Matters" for much emphasis on this insight. It was written by a (then ex-)Trot, Christopher Hitchens. It'll sound like Rand, which is isn't really meant to, but the issue is and will always be individualism v. collectivism.