Early Spanish anarchism and workers' culture (1868-1910). The weight of subordination in the defense of workers' identity
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2013v5n9p139Keywords:
Spanish anarchism, workers' culture, general strikeAbstract
The particular interpretations of the great libertarian themes by the Spanish anti-authoritarians were based on the social and discursive elaborations of the workers' collectives. Organizational initiatives and defense models led to true ideological constructions that gave a totally working-class character to the usual proposals of Bakuninist anarchism. Both the exaltation of organization conceived as an end in itself and the reluctance to propose a general strike were long-lasting. The essential objective continued to be the priority defense of the workers' identity and its forms of social presence. Even in the great conflicts of the early years of the 20th century, the tensions between these interpretations and the libertarian vision of social change, which was more ideological and more radical, were visible.
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