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[-] Dragon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure they did, at least not preemptively. Do you have examples?

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

What's your understanding of the entire situation? Are you suggesting that it was going well until the Communists backstabbed the Anarchists? Taking a real, materialist analysis of the situation is necessary. Historically, Communists and Anarchists have had uneasy alliances until differences in organizational theory lead to friction and then conflict.

[-] Dragon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I don't know how the war would have gone if those events hadn't taken place, but it seems to have undermined the strength of the popular front. And from what I've read the anarchists were sufficiently organized. The type of Anarchism popular amongst the Spanish was a syndicalist strain very different from the hyper-individualism people expect from anarchists today.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Why do you think it happened? You implied the fighting was one-sided and a betrayal.

[-] Dragon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Why what happened? As far as why Anarchists were attacked by communists, it is ppssible the USSR was more interested in developing a strategic ally than simply fighting Fascists. As far as why Franco won, I think the biggest reason was his much greater international support from Germany, Italy, and even American corporate powers.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

You're dancing around the issues, I'm asking why you say the Communists "betrayed" the Anarchists, as though it was a one-sided afair.

[-] Dragon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I mentioned examples. I don't know of any counter-examples.

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