-- James A. Donald:
The story of the Russian radical left is full of hypocrisy, betrayal and murder. The story of the Catalonian radical left is also full of very similar hypocrisy, betrayal and murder, with the added twist that in Catalonia the anarchist nomenclatura was sold by the anarchist leadership into the hands of their enemies.
Mattd:
Um,anarchists being sold out by "leadership".Anarchists don't have leadership
The Catalonian "anarchists" needed a leadership in order to impose socialism, resulting in such bizarre and amusing titles as "Anarchist minister of the economy". This had the usual unfortunate side effect that the midlevel militants, the nomenclatura that operated the bureacracy, the prisons, and the killing fields, found themselves utterly powerless in the hands of their leaders, as was illustrated when the leadership casually dissolved the local committees. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG v+zbU0vMFX8/pwb8tuOYQFryuGlaH+5wrg6q05lr 4N7e11aL+xUWiNqbTYVUBBlQJxgy76S8LyRz5Y2cJ