Click on title to link to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive's article by Leon Trotsky, "The Lessons Of Spain: The Last Warning".
Commentary
This is the 70th Anniversary of the fall of Madrid and Barcelona (essentially unopposed militarily by the Republican forces)in the Spanish Civil War. That event effectively ended the war and started the forty year Franco “night of the long knives”. Normally, we of the international workers movement do not ‘celebrate’ such abject failures as defeat in Spain. However, as noted in many entries in this space, the lessons of Spain should be etched into the brain of every serious militant. Why? We could have won there and changed the whole course of history, at least Western history. The reasons for that failure are legion but I would urge every serious militant and every radical to read, for starters, the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s “Lessons of The Spanish Civil War” at his Marxist Internet Archive site. We can argue out our differences on strategy from there.
Commentary
This is the 70th Anniversary of the fall of Madrid and Barcelona (essentially unopposed militarily by the Republican forces)in the Spanish Civil War. That event effectively ended the war and started the forty year Franco “night of the long knives”. Normally, we of the international workers movement do not ‘celebrate’ such abject failures as defeat in Spain. However, as noted in many entries in this space, the lessons of Spain should be etched into the brain of every serious militant. Why? We could have won there and changed the whole course of history, at least Western history. The reasons for that failure are legion but I would urge every serious militant and every radical to read, for starters, the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s “Lessons of The Spanish Civil War” at his Marxist Internet Archive site. We can argue out our differences on strategy from there.
A great article indeed and a very detailed, realistic and superb analysis of the current and past scenarios
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