Wednesday, July 19, 2006

70 Years of Anarchy

Because I am always referencing the ;
70 Years ago this week, General Franco launched his attack on the Spanish Republic, backed by Hitler, Mussolini and, tacitly, by the US and other Western powers.
This intro story to the events of the Spanish Revolution only mentions the anarcho-syndicalists three times, but it is still a good read for those wanting to understand more of what happened.

The Jake perspective in short form:

Fascists took over in Spain, Western democracies didn't aid the resistance because the workers' power/anti-big business ideas of the anarcho-syndicalist revolutionaries scared them, this emboldened fascists in Italy and Germany who did aid the coup, resulting in WWII.

So if you're against Anarchism, you're a friend of Hitler.

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