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The article doesn't really try to paint them as good guys? It's mostly a list of things that happened before concluding that the anarchists were completely unp
by Avshalom 9y ago
The article doesn't really try to paint them as good guys?
It's mostly a list of things that happened before concluding that the anarchists were completely unprepared for partial success which caused them to fracture and ally them selves with various lesser-of-two-evil factions which further fractured them leading to their eventual irrelevance.
- mrslave 9y agoIs the problem with anarchists that they cannot stay together?
- TaylorAlexander 9y agoIn the case of the Spanish civil war, the problem was that the communists and the fascists both wanted them killed, and so with some effort they succeeded.
- jancsika 9y agoAny documentary evidence that elucidates why the communists were against the anarchists?
- mercurial 9y agoThe strategy of the Stalin-backed communists was to not alienate the middle class. The anarchists, on the other hand, were not about letting war get in the way if social reform, and had taken over factories and collectivised land. It was also a good opportunity for Stalin to purge communists not allied with the USSR.
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- rumcajz 9y agoAlso see the history of anarchist "Free Territory" in present-day Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Territory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Territory
- coldtea 8y agoLoads and loads of books, historical documents, documentaries , and so on on the matter. Not just in Spain, in USSR and elsewhere too. In fact the ideological enmity between communists and anarchists starts even back at the time of Bakhunin and Marx (and they were many critiques from one to another).
- dgarceran 8y agoYes, in the first years of the Federación Regional: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federaci%C3%B3n_Regional_Espa%C3%B1ola_de_la_AIT https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federaci%C3%B3n_Regional_Espa%... in fact from their separation the socialist party (PSOE, the second most voted party in SPain nowadays) was created by Pablo Iglesias.
- hutzlibu 8y agoIn short: communists generally wanted a central government/(controlled by he socialist party). And anarchists not.
- m0skit0 8y agoAnarchists also attacked communists when it suited them. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Ses%C3%A9 https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Ses%C3%A9
- paulific 9y agoWell its a marxist magazine, so its essentially pushing a political line that the anarchists were wrong not to pursuing socialist goals.