I recently read an article written by my Political Science about the dictatorships in the Iberian Peninsula. At one point my teacher talks about the "treason by communists against the anarchists during the Spanish Civil War". In pretty much those terms. According to him, communists snitched to fascists about where anarchists hoarded their weapons, where they held meetings, where their food was stored, etc. Fascists in turn burned those buildings down and massacred the anarchists.
Is that true?
There was an issue between the anarchists and the more "libertarian" marxists on one side, and the communist party and the republic's government itself on the other, over whether the revolution should be carried out alongside the war of after it was won. It did lead to tension between the groups, and yes, fighting, specially in Catalonia. I don't know about outright telling the fascists about anarchist positions though.
Your teacher must be an anarchist, considering this is never mentioned (or probably even known) by people who aren't socialists. That being said though, I guess some things the communists did to the anarchists could be considered treason but all these things your teacher mentioned seem like fake stories to make the communists look bad.
No. My teacher is a socialist party member (moderate reformist) and he's quite fond of Marx.
I've been doing some research and what communists did to anarchists AND republicans AND trotskysts during the Spanish Civil War is way worse than I thought, thought apparently trotskysts corroborated with commies against anarchists before being culled so fuck them.
Feels like no side is totally clean. I need to inform myself better. This shit has so many layers I'm just starting to unravel.
I also learned that anarchists had "gulags" and they joined the Republican government, going against their anti-statist convictions.
Communists, for instance, killed an Italian anarchist in May Day 1937. They were funded by USSR but were told they needed to stop the anarchists because they were "counter-revolutionary agents".
I'll read these next:
libcom.org
theanarchistlibrary.org
Yep, that's pretty much what ruined the Spanish Revolution. Not the gulags, those are a great way to help the war effort (inb4, anarchy wants human rights, but porky isn't human), but Durruti's lack of trust on his own revolution. The anarchists had the biggest and best army, and were pretty much fighting the war on their own, and for some reason he thought they needed to bow down to republicans, trotskysts and the Soviet Union.
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Those were problems common to most of the Republican forces.
Treason against anarchists isn't treason, it's justice.
thats utter horseshit
I don't know about collaboration with the fascists but the Soviets did consider the anarchists a bigger threat than the fascists which is well illustrated by the fact that even when all their own positions were overrun by the fascists and the civil war was concluded the Soviet press was busy celebrating the anti-anarchist laws the Spanish bourgeois and the so-called "communists" enacted as their last effort.
Get a load of this treason
The revolution failed because the Soviets stole all the Spanish gold before Durruti could.
Pretty good, and if you disagree, I will fuck off to the heart of global reaction and write books condemning you.
yeah, beautiful
i can see them actually believing this
Thank you. Do you have the source for these?
can't make this shit up
stalinists spent lots of resources in strongarming anarchists together with their liberal and conservative partners instead of the other way around
literally defending them for taking a pussy reformist stance
We're all excited to be here, but come on… priorities.
They're from Europe Between the Wars by Martin Kitchen and Spain The Unfinished Revolution by Arthur Landis
Thanks
First of all, "gulags" aren't the word you're looking for, what you mean is "Labour camp", as "Gulag" was the name of the government agency for managing labour camps in the USSR, it wasn't the name of the camps themselves. Secondly, the anarchists didn't build labour camps, they reformed the prison system so that prisoners could lessen their time served in exchange for labour
"The most important political lesson learned from the Spanish Revolution is that a revolution cannot compromise with existing power structures. In this, it just confirmed anarchist theory and the basic libertarian position that a social revolution will only succeed if it follows an anarchist path and does not seek to compromise in the name of fighting a "greater evil." As Kropotkin put it, a "revolution that stops half-way is sure to be soon defeated."
So the lesson is to never compromise. This doesn't discredit anarchist theory, it simply means that next time we must learn from our mistakes and plan accordingly, anarchism is always forming and adapting to the social conditions, like science. Unlike the auth-lefts, who continue to pretend that it's the 1917 and try to work an outdated model, refusing to get with the times.
cuck.
That is bullshit and you know it preety well.
The nationalists after receiving support from Italy and Germany were a greater force in both training (do you forget what the Legion did to the miners in the Asturias) and manpowder, not just that but you seem to think that everyone that was a prol sided with you in the start of the civil war.
There is a book I need to find again that describes this discrepancy preety well, where in the countryside you had 90% attedency to the mass while in a place like Catalunya you had 11%.
Everything is lost now.