In the essays that make up this book, Murray Bookchin places the Spanish anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist movements of the 1930s in the context of...
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Jul 14, 2009
Steven
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Murray Bookchin is a fascinating author. He wrote a number of works on libertarian and anarchist issues. Unlike many, who are naïve and don’t have a hard-eyed view of matters, he examined such issues in a critical manner. Just so, this (too) brief work.
Some years earlier, Bookchin had authored a work on the development of the Spanish anarchist and syndicalist movement, starting in the latter third of the 19th century. His telling of Fanelli’s visit, trying to communicate Bakunin’s id More...
Some years earlier, Bookchin had authored a work on the development of the Spanish anarchist and syndicalist movement, starting in the latter third of the 19th century. His telling of Fanelli’s visit, trying to communicate Bakunin’s id More...
Mar 02, 2010
Vallan
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good book. near the end of the book: "Whether the American left shares with the Spanish left the popular legacy that the latter cleansed and rescued from the right is a crucial problem ... insofar as the anarchists gave these traditions coherence and a radical thrust, converting them into a radical culture, not merely a contrived "program," they survived generations of incredible persecution and repression"
my biggest beef here? bookchin is pretty cynical about t More...
my biggest beef here? bookchin is pretty cynical about t More...
Jan 13, 2011
Graham
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If a fairly didactic examination of the relationship between communists and anarcho-syndicalists in the power struggles of post-monarchy, pre-Franco Spain seems like something up your alley, by all means get this. The historical analysis is interesting and concise (mercifully so, considering how bogged these tracts can get intheir own revolutionary verbiage), but whoever edited this should be fired. An inability to use even basic punctuation properly could very easily hinder any progressive au
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Oct 09, 2007
This is a brief overview of the anarcho/syndicalist movement during the Spanish Revolution. Bookchin gives a brief summary of the years the Spanish Revolution took place as well as critiques the relevance of the anarcho/syndicalists move towards a libertarian communist society. He discusses issues such as the flaws in CNT, and in general labor unions, and how they are more reformist than revolutionary. Furthermore, he suggests that when organizations such as the CNT/FAI grow in size, and althoug
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Jun 02, 2009
Josh
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Reading it on the soil, it is hard to imagine here, but Bookchin brings great insight as always from history's lessons.
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