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Re:Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War (2002) by Avshalom on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @09:34PM (#17026817)
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.

Re:Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War (2002) by mrslave on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @09:59PM (#17026925)
Is the problem with anarchists that they cannot stay together?
Re:Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War (2002) by TaylorAlexander on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @10:04PM (#17026945)
In 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.
Re:Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War (2002) by m0skit0 on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @06:09AM (#17028664)
Anarchists also attacked communists when it suited them. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Ses%C3%A9
Re:Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War (2002) by jancsika on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @12:45AM (#17027453)
Any documentary evidence that elucidates why the communists were against the anarchists?
Re:Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War (2002) by coldtea on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @05:29AM (#17028487)
Loads and loads of books, historical documents, documentaries , and so on on the matter.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).

Re:Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War (2002) by dgarceran on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @06:55AM (#17028865)
Yes, in the first years of the Federación Regional: 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.
Re:Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War (2002) by rumcajz on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @02:23AM (#17027765)
Also see the history of anarchist "Free Territory" in present-day Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Territory
Re:Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War (2002) by mercurial on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @01:03AM (#17027506)
The 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.
Re:Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War (2002) by hutzlibu on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @07:59PM (#17035377)
In short: communists generally wanted a central government/(controlled by he socialist party). And anarchists not.
Re:Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War (2002) by paulific on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @04:37AM (#17028259)
Well its a marxist magazine, so its essentially pushing a political line that the anarchists were wrong not to pursuing socialist goals.