Abolishing money and the Spanish Civil War
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Interesting article, though some of the points it makes are a bit questionable…
https://jadesaab.com/the-cnt-money-and-the-spanish-revolution-f6f282d0f3bc
“Abolishing money” is such an ass backwards way of describing it. I scanned through the article, what stood out to you?
https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s/2016/no-1345-september-2016/heroic-tragedy-civil-war-and-social-revolution/. The tragedy of the Spanish civil war
https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s/2016/no-1346-october-2016/heroic-tragedy-civil-war-within-civil-war/. A civil war within a civil war“Abolishing money” is such an ass backwards way of describing it. I scanned through the article, what stood out to you?
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Didn’t the participant said that some of the points are a little bit questionable ?
There are some organizations which advocate to abolish money without eliminating capitalismt first. They are putting the cart before the horse
By coincidence, Imposs1904 has just posted on his blog this article from the August 1937 Socialist Standard analysing the economic stakes at issue in the Spanish Civil War for the various capitalist states at the time.
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2025/08/what-is-behind-governments-spanish.html
The reality is that most of the powerful capitalist powers were involved with fascists ond nazis before and after the war. Millions of peoples died in vain defending the interest of a bunch of crooks and criminals. The Spanish civil war was a tragedy of workers against workers and the main objective was to establish a capitalist republic in order to continue their own exploitation. It was a war like any other war for natural resources, and it also shows that the so called national liberation is just an ideological crap, in the same way that the war in Ukraine and the middle East
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