Yes, I know from a rhetorical perspective they're a bunch of jerks who do nothing but complain, but is there an actual takedown of their ideological notions? Because just saying they suck without further explanation makes it hard to dismiss them when they pop up. I don't agree with them, I just want to know why I shouldn't. Something about statues and logic and being chained in a courtyard with wind and all that. I'm not sure where to put this, sorry.
as LeninsRage pointed out, the italian antifascists also failed the task of stopping fascists coming to power---if anything the Spanish were more successful in seizing state power where the nominal alliance of liberals and communists and socialists (anarchists mostly stayed out electorally) controlled the government, were actively if too slowly turning that liberal state on the fascists. one of the major tensions that led to the war was the state secret police, under the direction of the socialists killing a right-winger. of course they didn't manage to get the whole guardia on their side or complete a repression of the military staff, but shit, as soon as the war started the actual head of the fascist party and hundreds of his goons were taken out back and executed.
the outcome of the war was really decided by 75,000 fascisti and 12,000 nazis, there really isn't anything ideological to point out when your only answer to the best the leading fascist nations could field is 50k marxist bookclub members who you can hardly find rifles for. the only thing that could've really done it is the Front Populaire not being english bootlickers, the Soviets somehow sending actual tank battalions (along with more than 150? total tanks they actually sent, there were so many T-26s to spare & they outclassed every other tank in the theater)