Anarchists and the Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War laid the groundwork for the mass destruction and turmoil that was to come with World War II. The Civil war was a battle among the left, pitting communism versus fascism. There were many different groups fighting for each side, the most important, anarchists. Anarchists believe in a classless society. It is their ideas that oppose capitalism as a system that profits the small minority and not the majority. Government, army, and …

…revolutionaries. It was this revolutionary army that took the country by storm, with more than 150,000 revolutionaries ready to fight whenever, or wherever. The miltia was not forced onto the workers, they joined because they wanted to make revolution. The problem facing the militias however, was the lack of arms. The militias fought as hard as they could, giving everything that they had, until the day they died, anarchists belived in “all-out resistance” at all costs(104).