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1936 The Spanish Revolution (Spanish Edition)

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Anarchy is not chaos and rebellion. It is not a failure of government--it is true *self* government. This book gifts the reader with a photographic history of one of the grandest Anarchist experiments in modern times.

Powerful and inspiring pictures, chronicling what people can do when no longer subjected to a dominator paradigm government. A few pages of text give a brief, thumbnail history of the Spanish Civil War and the Anarcho-Syndicalist trades union, the CNT. Depressing to read about how industrialists, fascists, and communists worked together to destroy this movement of the people.

Nevertheless, the pictures . . . oh, the pictures speak tens of thousands of words. The "mass man," so decried by philosophers like Jose Ortega y Gasset, rise up, take responsibility for and control of their own lives. Pictures of the workers organizing to run the factories, accountable to themselves. Pictures of society organizing itself, for itself. Truly, government of the people, for the people, by the people--not a system where the people's choice for representation is bought and sold by corporate interests!

[A final note]

What a great scam! Put out four songs on two micro CDs, then package them in a slick, 100 page picture book about the Spanish Civil War from an anarchist perspective. Not quite the fame and fortune of MTV, but better than trying to get down loaded off a website nobody's ever heard of. Because of the pictures, a scam I wholeheartedly support!

I read this book last semister for a class I was taking on the Spanish Revolution and I found it to be compelling. It covers the revolution war in spain in depth. It's only 100 pages, but it's well written and contains many beautiful and touching and some explcit photos on the the war scene. I found it to be very educational and it gave me a good understanding of something that happened many years ago.

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