A-Infos (en) Greece, Saints Anargyro - Kamaterou: The Spanish anarchists, the heroic years 1868-1936 | M. Bookchin (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

What led up to the Spanish Revolution? Why did anarchism take root in 
Spain and not in Germany, Russia or elsewhere? What were Proudhon's 
federalist views, what was Bakunin's anarchist collectivism and what was 
Kropotkin's anarcho-communism? How did revolutionary syndicalism differ 
from anarcho-syndicalism? How did all these currents of ideas contribute 
to keeping anarchism alive in Spain despite the waves of repression it 
suffered for seventy years: from the time of the federalist movement of 
Piy Margal and the Bacchus of the First International to the coup of 
Franco in 1936? How did the anarchists manage, amidst the vicissitudes 
of the Civil War, to create the most important Social Revolution of the 
20th century and to bring about collectivization in both rural and 
industrial areas voluntarily and not forcibly and violently like the 
Bolsheviks in 1917? Bookchin answers all these questions in a clear but 
at the same time interdisciplinary way, the opposite of the one that 
develops in academic greenhouses. Bookchin's way of searching for 
a-truth is similar to that of all revolutionary intellectuals whose 
spirit has been sharpened by their sincere need to answer in 
non-ideological terms the eternal question: "How can the world change", 
how to live the people without state and capitalism, without hierarchy 
and sovereignty? The key to the achievements of Spanish anarchism in 
1936 lies, as Bookchin demonstrates, in the pre-existing trade union 
organization. And above all in the Spanish anarcho-syndicalists' 
particular perception of the trade union, who considered it not only an 
instrument of struggle and claims, but also as the cell of the future 
society, which should already include its libertarian principles. (From 
the presentation on the back cover of the book)

It is available at the Mavrokokkino Nima bookstore, in the Anarchist 
Philosophical Shelter

From anarchism in Book Presentations, Spain 1936-1939

https://anarchism.espivblogs.net/2024/07/10/oi-ispanoi-anarchikoi-ta-iroika-chronia-1868-1936-m-mpoyktsin-2/
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