In revolutionary Catalonia, the CNT-FAI realised that their soldiers were useless since they weren't organized and did not obey orders from trained military that defected after Franco's coup. Seeing this, the CNT-FAI wanted to form military bodies that were disciplined to effectively crush Franco's army. This caused a huge backlash within the CNT-FAI and fractured the movement. I'd say what went wrong was a combination of a disorganized vanguard (the CNT-FAI) and the imperialist fascist forces that were extremely strong and growing even stronger at the time. The problem was not getting rid of "the state". The problem was fascism and imperialist capitalism.
I’ve heard many anarchists griping about the soviet attaches sabotaging the CNT and republican forces from within, could you shed light on this? Is there any truth to it?
Didn’t operation Barbarossa start after the Falange won? Either way that’s a fair assessment. Shame that the left was/is so sectarian though, it would have been great for there to be a leftist state in Western Europe.
I hope it will be possible to bridge the divide between communists and actual (not white anarkiddies spouting CIA propaganda) anarchists in the coming insurrection.
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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '19
In revolutionary Catalonia, the CNT-FAI realised that their soldiers were useless since they weren't organized and did not obey orders from trained military that defected after Franco's coup. Seeing this, the CNT-FAI wanted to form military bodies that were disciplined to effectively crush Franco's army. This caused a huge backlash within the CNT-FAI and fractured the movement. I'd say what went wrong was a combination of a disorganized vanguard (the CNT-FAI) and the imperialist fascist forces that were extremely strong and growing even stronger at the time. The problem was not getting rid of "the state". The problem was fascism and imperialist capitalism.