Anarchism vs. Capitalism

Historically and currently the Anarchist movement has consisted overwhelmingly of socialists. To-day for instance there are Anarchist organizations of over 10,000 members that are also trade unions in Sweden and Spain. There are many other organizations with memberships in the hundreds in most countries world-wide. All of these organizations are explicitly Anarchist, revolutionary and anti-capitalist. When we come to looking at North America however we find a curious thing. Since the mass expulsion and criminalization of …

…they employed no one and providing they worked all the land. Land that was unused was confiscated by the collective. Many of these people in fact joined the collectives within months. When the capitalists came back to power in Spain they destroyed not only the collectives but all those who led the building of them. Perhaps half a million Anarchists were killed by the Spanish capitalists, many more were imprisoned in either France or Spain