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#CNT / #FAI #Representation #SpanishRevolution #1936 - #1939

We have all seen how much damage, for example, the representation of the #ConfederaciónNacionalDelTrabajo in Spain, at the time of the anti-fascist struggles from 1936-39, have added both the matter of freedom in their country and the #AnarchistMovement in general. At that time, the representative system, practiced by people who called themselves anarchists, worked equally, as it works in all authoritarian parties. At a certain point in time, the alleged representatives of the Iberian libertarian proletariat took over the initiative of a government policy, which is absolutely opposed to the premises of anarchist teaching, and, without questioning their clients - even their protests where there was an occasion for this, in censorship and suffocating in the blood - they sent their men to hold ministerial offices and to solidarity with brutal repression of the popular will.

The international anarchist movement has still not paid off the consequences of this fateful perversion.

— Max Sartin - Das repräsentative System und das anarchistische Ideal