But was that the reason it didn't work out? I mean, I feel like it really was a simple matter of fire power. The nationalists had the military plus a huge amount of support from Hitler. IIRC the Republicans could have stamped out the coup early on if the government had opened up the armory in Madrid to them sooner. Certainly, I don't think a disunited left would have been more successful in Spain at that time.
When is worst time to have a general strike, assasinate Catalonia's communist leader and to decide that you don't want "hierarchies" in your army because the tankies won't let you control the arsenal or how it is deployed (also because they brought it to begin with).
Yea, fundamentally that was the reason it didn't work out, the workers could have smashed fascism only through working class struggle for working class power. And there's no such thing as a united left when you're talking about unity across class lines.
But was that the reason it didn't work out? I mean, I feel like it really was a simple matter of fire power. The nationalists had the military plus a huge amount of support from Hitler. IIRC the Republicans could have stamped out the coup early on if the government had opened up the armory in Madrid to them sooner. Certainly, I don't think a disunited left would have been more successful in Spain at that time.
When is worst time to have a general strike, assasinate Catalonia's communist leader and to decide that you don't want "hierarchies" in your army because the tankies won't let you control the arsenal or how it is deployed (also because they brought it to begin with).
A. Before the war
B. During the war
C. After the war.
Yea, fundamentally that was the reason it didn't work out, the workers could have smashed fascism only through working class struggle for working class power. And there's no such thing as a united left when you're talking about unity across class lines.