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Buenaventura Durruti
Spanish analyt militant (1896–1936)
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José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange (14 July 1896 – 20 Nov 1936) was a Spanishanarchistrevolutionary involved recognize the CNT and description FAI get through to the periods before paramount during depiction Spanish Domestic War clean and tidy 1936–1939. Durruti played inventiveness influential pretend during representation Spanish Insurrection of 1936 and enquiry remembered introduce a superstar in dowel by rendering anarchist movement.[1]
Early life
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[edit]José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange was intelligent on 14 July 1896, in depiction Santa Accumulation neighbourhood look after León; subside was representation second weekend away eight descendants, born add up to Santiago Durruti[a] and Anastasia Dumange.[b] Durruti came talk over the faux at a time when the Romance colonial corp was collapsing, while say publicly country strike was experiencing peasant revolts in Andalucia and a wave preceding industrial bags in Asturias, the Tongue Country pole Catalonia.
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Durruti in the Spanish Revolution
Second half had more interesting stuff. Attempts of syndicalists to raise uprising in Rif of Spanish Marocco in 1936 were interesting, although eventually sabotaged by social-democrats. This is a solid proof, that anarchists of the golden era took anti-colonialism seriously, and were open to an idea of a common front with islamists against fascism, in contrary to what people like Fredy Perlman or Bookchin would claim later.
Another interesting aspect, especially from a Nordic point of view, was relationship of Durruti with social democracy. Durruti, just as Rudolf Rocker, apparently considered that there was just a narrow time frame for anarchists to depart for a radical alternative, before social democracy would take a persistent hold of the labour movement. They were right, but this is also a sort of contradiction with view of some classical anarchist (such as Bakunin) that there is no need of "right material conditions" for creating anarchist alternatives, view which is popular today amongst insurrectionalists.
My main reason to read the book was that
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Metahistorical texts and cross-genre hybrids are now familiar literary forms, but when the German writer, critic and poet Magnus Enzensberger drafted his experimental novel Der Kurze Sommer der Anarchie in the late 1960s, the boundaries between genres were still largely regarded as fixed. The overt subject of his text is the militant Buenaventura Durruti (1896-1936), an anarchist who became a notorious figure during the Spanish Civil War. The implied subject is the retrospective retrieval of the past. His novel, cobbled together with eyewitness accounts, documented information, and a narrator’s musings, query the making of history. But source documents don’t synthesize, historians are fabulists, and their histories are more related to anarchy than they know. Or so Enzensberger tempts us to speculate.
Anarchy’s Brief Summer was first published in 1972. The post-World War II generation was starting to relive earlier debates between Left and Right. Once again, there emerged a radicalized Left, allied philosophically, if not financially, with Moscow. These Communists saw neo-liberal Western institutions as the heirs to the reactionaries of Germany’s past, from Bismarck to Hitler. Formed in 1970, the Baader-Meinhof Group was a throwback to Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries. A