> I hope you're not drawing a parallel between Russian revolutionaries, later soviets and CNT/FAI. The differences are huge, but I don't think that was very re

> I hope you're not drawing a parallel between Russian revolutionaries, later soviets and CNT/FAI. The differences are huge, but I don't think that was very relevant at the time. I do not think it was easy to understand, for example by an old catholic woman of the Spain of 1936, that the libertarian communism of Bakunin and Kropotkin those atheist were talking about had nothing to do with the communist revolution of Russia she had read about in the news some years ago. Even many people part of these movements did not have their differences clear at all, or were too pragmatic for that, and were just fighting fascism.