Evans, Danny and Stainforth, Elizabeth (2023) Learning to Live: Anarcho-syndicalism and Utopia in Spain, 1931-1937. International Journal of Iberian Studies. ISSN 1364-971X
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Abstract
This article reassesses the debate around the meaning of ‘libertarian communism’ within the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist movement in the years prior to and during the Civil War. Drawing on recent historical and theoretical literature that argues for a non-pejorative and analytical understanding of utopia, it brings renewed attention to this aspect of Spanish anarcho-syndicalism. The article focuses on the proposals for a definition of libertarian communism that were debated in the run up to and during the National Confederation of Labour’s (CNT) Zaragoza Congress in May 1936. It argues that a utopian imagination was central to the movement’s self-understanding and concrete achievements, and not confined to its more idealist currents.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | The final, published version is available from: https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ijis_00078_1 |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Creative Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities |
| Depositing User: | Danny Evans |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Oct 2022 09:33 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Dec 2024 15:13 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3584 |
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