The Friends of Durruti Group: 1937-39 - Agustin Guilamòn
Guillamòn's in-depth study of the hugely important anarcho-syndicalist CNT militants who opposed their union's collaboration with the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War.
Do any critiques of this exist? I started reading it, and the whole "Them suckers lacked a vanguard ya'll!" strieks me as some serious bullshit. Gonna finish later, makes some interesting points.
You have to remember that Guillamon and the Bilan group were Marxists, sort of dissident Trotskyists, existing in a mixed stew somewhere between/among the POUM, Left Communism, and councilism. So of course the primary problem of the most explicitly revolutionary faction of the CNT-FAI (the FoD) was that they refused to come together as a conscious revolutionary vanguard to set up a dictatorship of the proletariat. Uh huh.
Bilan was a journal produced in French by exiled Italian Bordiguists in the 30s. Guillamón is far too young to have had anything to do with it, and has criticised the limits of the group's approach in a recent interview (in Spanish): https://archive.org/details/23oct13AnabasisGuillamon
Perhaps the confusion stems from the name of Guillamón's journal, Balance.
A new, revised edition of this book has just come out in Spanish:
http://www.kaosenlared.net/secciones/s2/memoria-historica/item/73544-los-amigos-de-durruti-historia-y-antolog%C3%ADa-de-textos.html
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Do any critiques of this
Do any critiques of this exist? I started reading it, and the whole "Them suckers lacked a vanguard ya'll!" strieks me as some serious bullshit. Gonna finish later, makes some interesting points.
Any critiques anywhere?
You have to remember that
You have to remember that Guillamon and the Bilan group were Marxists, sort of dissident Trotskyists, existing in a mixed stew somewhere between/among the POUM, Left Communism, and councilism. So of course the primary problem of the most explicitly revolutionary faction of the CNT-FAI (the FoD) was that they refused to come together as a conscious revolutionary vanguard to set up a dictatorship of the proletariat. Uh huh.
I actually was pretty unaware
I actually was pretty unaware of Guillamon's history/political situationing, so thanks for that background! ;)
Bilan was a journal produced
Bilan was a journal produced in French by exiled Italian Bordiguists in the 30s. Guillamón is far too young to have had anything to do with it, and has criticised the limits of the group's approach in a recent interview (in Spanish): https://archive.org/details/23oct13AnabasisGuillamon
Perhaps the confusion stems from the name of Guillamón's journal, Balance.
A new, revised edition of this book has just come out in Spanish:
http://www.kaosenlared.net/secciones/s2/memoria-historica/item/73544-los-amigos-de-durruti-historia-y-antolog%C3%ADa-de-textos.html
The deeper you dig, the
The deeper you dig, the better the info; thx Dannny.