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To Remember Spain
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To Remember Spain
Murray Bookchin
AK Press
¨ Copyright: 1994 Murray Bookchin
First published in 1994 by:
AK Press
PO Box 40682
San Francisco, CA 94140-0682
USA
AK Press
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Edinburgh, Scotland
EH8 9PE
From the book:
The publication of this book was in part, made possible
by the generosity of the Friends of AK Press, with
particular thanks to Joe Williams.
Typeset and design donated by Freddie Baer.
IllustrationsbySim,from Estampas de la Revolucin
Espaola 19 Julio de 1936.
CONTENTS
Preface
An Overview of the Spanish Libertarian
Movement
After Fifty Years: The Spanish Civil War
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Preface
These essays are less an analysis of the Spanish
Revolution and Civil War of 1936-39 than an evocation
of the greatest proletarian and peasant revolution to
occur over the past two centuries. Although they contain
a general overview and evaluation of the Anarchist and
Anarchosyndicalist movements (the two should be
clearly distinguished) in the three-year struggle at the
end of the 1930s, they are not intended to be a full
account of those complex events.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Spanish Revolution
was the farthest-reaching movement that the Left ever
produced, for reasons the essays that follow will make
clear. The Spanish proletariat and peasantry, led largely
by Anarchist militants whose names will never be known
to us, strained the limits of what we in the 1930s called
"proletarian socialism" and went appreciably beyond
them. Far more than the leaders of the
Anarchosyndicalist National Confederation of Labor and
the Iberian Anarchist Federation (CNT-FAI) expected or
apparently even wanted, Anarchists and
Anarchosyndicalists spontaneously formed the famous
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