Volume 24, Number 16 · October 13, 1977
All or Nothing
By Raymond Carr
The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years 1868-1936
by Murray Bookchin
Free Life Editions, 41 Union Square West, NYC 10003, 344 pp., $12.50
Durruti: The People Armed
by Abel Paz, translated by Nancy MacDonald
Free Life Editions, 323 pp., $12.95
The Anarchist Collective: Workers Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution, 1936-1939
edited by Sam Dolgoff, with an introduction by Murray Bookchin
Free Life Editions, 231 pp., $4.95 (paper)
Let me put my cards on the table. I regard Spanish anarchism as largely a disaster, both for the workers' movement and for democracy in Spain. It is all the harder to make this judgment because the anarchist militants I have known are moving in their sincerity, if naïve to the point of self-destruction. To understand, alas, is not to pardon.
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