Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War (2002)

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?

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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Loads and loads of books, historical documents, documentaries , and so on on the matter.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).

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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