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He was disillusioned by the stalinists who jeopardized the Spanish revolution and rightfully so. But why am I talking to you
okay i bite ... give me the run down on the Stalinist betraying the Spanish Revolution (actually the elected goverment) .. can you contrast it to the support that the great (oh the flag is so sexy) Spanish republic got by all these other "republics" .. Standing "as proud as Liberals do " against Fascism...
Just read the book: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/george-orwell-homage-to-catalonia
But Stalin sided with the liberals because he said Spain isn't in the position for a revolution. The anarchosyndicalists weren't too happy about it. According to Orwell at least, there sure are different views on the story.
On lemmygrad I've been downvoted into oblivion (with a different account) for explaining basic facts about anarchism. Here I'm called a liberal and get comments deleted for insisting that today's Ukraine isn't nazi Germany. Lemmy is wild.
While homage to Catalonia is a great book, it is not an accurate portrayal of the Anarchists actions in those days. It should be taken as only a personal experience of Anarchist Catalonia, not a political analysis. Even Beevor has a better overview.
I'm pretty sympathetic to them and the MLs are certainly open to criticism, but "hecka awesome anarchists stomped on by Stalinists trying to reverse the revolution" is not what happened. Orwell is so, so politically clueless here about a fraught and morally grey case of infighting, jockeying for power and coup attempts by all sides.
I mean he ended up with POUM ffs and then tried to switch to the MLs!