-- James A. Donald:
Yet you cite (as evidence that I am a liar) Ian McKay's article on the Catalonian anarchists, in which he concedes that the anarchists wound up creating what most people would call a state, indeed a terrorist dictatorship, but argues that I am lying in that such a state was a good thing, and run by nice people, deeply concerned for the welfare of the masses
mattd:
I maintain that someone relying on your site for information on Spain,without other sources,would be misled at the very least.To leave out is another way to lie.
Is it a lie to neglect to mention that Adolf Hitler was kind to dogs? Or that Stalin was courageous and did well in school? Or that there were lots of women that Jeffrey Dahmer did not torture, kill, and eat? It is certainly true that all sorts of nice people had all sorts of good intentions in Catalonia, but when they attempted to implement those good intentions, they mostly found themselves using the old familiar methods of recently existent socialism, and when they did not use those methods, socialism did not work. That is the important truth about Catalonia, and all the other truths, the truths that some people were sincere, the truths that some people had good intentions, are irrelevant. I do mention those truths, briefly. Unlike the sources you prefer I do not go into lengthy spiels describing those wonderful good intentions while ignoring the actual outcome. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG q+/fIX3YcyUPZS3c//ayT8ea4WovmVJkejCauMlK 4V0+mqGuW1v4QSYGF2joLRHM6on9Tfs4AGB88wstm