Right well a few conflicting things have been said about the CNT and whether they had paid officials or workers or anything.
As far as I was concerned paying admin staff might be acceptable, but not paying delgates or anything.
People said a variety of things like the CNT had no paid staff, or it only paid one or something.
I'm reading Sam Dolgoff's The Anarchist Collectives and in the introduction Bookchin says that:
- delegates to regional/national/local committees were not paid
- National secretary was paid average workers' wage
- ditto clerical staff of national committee
- ditto editors and staffs of CNT daily papers (of which there were a fair few, no?)
Is this accurate? If so, does this change the opinions of the people who claimed you can have mass organisations with no paid admin staff, because the CNT did?
