An Impossible Unity: Revolution, Reform and Counter-Revolution and the Spanish Left, 1917–23

Ealham, Chris

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“…In addition to immediacy, another core precept within this anarchist matrix is the idea of "affinity," wherein empathetic bonds of loyalty, friendship, shared values and ethics were to be the basis on which cooperation and a group identity could be nurtured. Anarchist concepts of unmediated affinity call for a profound degree of interpersonal understanding, self-reflexive behavior, and positive affectivity between participants: a state of mind deemed antithetical to that propagated by the state (Ealham 2010;Day 2005;Gordon 2008). It is in this regard that contemporary anarchists draw inspiration from Gustav Landauer's anarchist definition of the state as a dynamic set of relations, first articulated in his manifesto, "Weak Statement, Weaker People!"…”

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Bergson’s Legacy among the Avant-Garde: Intuition, Aesthetics, and Political Ideology

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2024

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In this article I will examine more closely why exactly Bergson’s philosophy of time and intuition proved so compelling to proponents of anarchist ideology, as interpreted by a key group of artists and activists affiliated with the London-based avant-garde movement known as Vorticism (1914-1918). As I demonstrate Bergson’s thought had special appeal among anarchists more generally because his process-oriented philosophy affirmed that movements’ ideological allegiance to notions of immediacy, affinity and prefigurative politics. Bergson’s philosophy enabled these radicals to reconceptualize ideology in terms of human psychology and social interactions, which in turn empowered the Vorticists’ to integrate art and aesthetics into their multivalent critique of the State. More broadly, this recasting of Bergson’s philosophy from an ideological perspective not only serves to distinguished the avant-gardes’ aesthetics from that of Bergson himself, it marks the crucial difference separating the era of the historical avant-garde from our own day, when Bergson’s thought no longer holds sway among contemporary political movements.

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Bergson’s Legacy among the Avant-Garde: Intuition, Aesthetics, and Political Ideology

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“…Необходимо отметить, что в действительности проституция на фронте, как пишет об этом в своем исследовании Лиза Лайнс, отсутствовала полностью или практически полностью 64 . Известно, что в отдельных случаях происходило закрытие публичных домов, однако в целом такого рода политику проводить в жизнь оказалось в достаточной степени сложно 65 . Дело в том, что не все считали целесообразным радикальное искоренение проституции, считая, что достаточно поставить данную область под общественный контроль, тем самым легализовав ее, дабы постараться этим максимально ограничить распространение венерических заболеваний.…”

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Spanish Anarchism: "New Morality" and "Free Women"

Andrey¹

2020

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Аннотация: История испанского анархизма-это не только история борьбы рабочего движения и крестьянства за свои права и создание общества, основанного на принципах либертарного коммунизма. Также это и сложная совокупность целого ряда тем, сделавших из анархистского движения альтернативный культурный проект, пронизывавший все сферы жизни. Важной частью данного проекта стали вопросы сексуальности, новой морали, которые были призваны не просто изменить производственные отношения в обществе, политическую систему, но радикально изменить само общество, изменить общественное сознание. Не менее значима была и борьба за права женщин, которая резко усилилась с началом гражданской войны и революции 1936-1939 годов. При этом одним из главных средств в достижении анархистами поставленных целей в области культуры стала работа по повышению уровня грамотности населения, развитие образовательных программ.

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“…It sent two official delegations to Moscow, one in 1920 and another in 1921. 6 By late 1920, the revolutionary tide in Spain and the rest of Europe began to ebb, tempering the enthusiasm about the Russian Revolution. Repression against the labor movement stiffened, and Spanish anarcho-syndicalists were dragged into an attrition war with the authorities and with right-wing gunmen.…”

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An Uncanny Honeymoon: Spanish Anarchism and the Bolshevik Dictatorship of the Proletariat, 1917–22

Rodríguez

2018

Inter. Labor Working-Class Hist.

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The Russian Revolution became a beacon flare for anti-capitalists across the world, including many anarchists. The Spanish anarcho-syndicalists became ardent supporters of Bolshevism, and many endorsed the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Here, I try to arrive at a political and historical understanding of this uncanny honeymoon, and question empirical explanations that present it as a simple misunderstanding. I firstly historicize the evolution of the concept of the workers’ dictatorship in the Spanish labor movement and assess it through the prism of the antagonism between the anarchists and socialists. I then set the reception of the Russian Revolution in the context of social ferment that emerged in Spain after 1917, which generated enormous enthusiasm and clouded theoretical differences. I finally relate the reception of the Soviet dictatorship to the intensification of class violence in these years, which rendered many anarchists hospitable to the authoritarian methods of the Bolsheviks.

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An Impossible Unity: Revolution, Reform and Counter-Revolution and the Spanish Left, 1917–23

Cited by 5 publications

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Bergson’s Legacy among the Avant-Garde: Intuition, Aesthetics, and Political Ideology

Bergson’s Legacy among the Avant-Garde: Intuition, Aesthetics, and Political Ideology

Spanish Anarchism: "New Morality" and "Free Women"

An Uncanny Honeymoon: Spanish Anarchism and the Bolshevik Dictatorship of the Proletariat, 1917–22

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