Post #1358553
2026-04-13 02:54 UTC
That implies that the Anarchists ever took control of the nation away from the Nationalist party which knelt down to the Nazis IMMEDIATELY. So not only was it a failed state, but a failed revolution which never controlled the state.
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@the_abecedarian@piefed.social 2026-04-13 05:37
the point of anarchism is not to control the state, but rather to stop having one. for the territory that made up anarchist Spain, that was successfully achieved. it's no weakness of anarchism itself to be defeated militarily; all kinds of societies have been defeated militarily.
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@bearboiblake@pawb.social 2026-04-13 02:57
The Nationalists were the fucking nazis, my guy, the clue is right there in the name. They were backed by Hitler and Mussolini. Clearly, unless the anarchists somehow defeated the German Reich and Italy pretty much single-handedly, you view it as a failure. Yet, while neoliberalism is failing now, you don't see the failures of liberalism.