• The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.net
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    5 hours ago

    The Spanish Civil War is actually slightly inaccurate. The Communist Party were sided with the Liberal Republicans instead of the revolutionaries - like the anarchists, and other socialists - and later prosecuted those revolutionaries and accused them of being fascists while a lot of them were still in the frontlines fighting actual fascists. The Communist Party were just serving the interests of the USSR, which at that point wanted a liberal government in Spain (due to their relation to France, if I recall correctly) and not a workers’ revolution.

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      This is why campism is the biggest pitfall on the left. It’s tempting to let others do your thinking for you, but this is where it leads.