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was ignored that the revolution is
not made; it is organized.
90 The peasants were not drawn
into the revolutionary struggles.
This too is the reason why the army,
consisting mainly of peasants, did
not go over to the side of the revo-
luton.
90 The problem of power, the
fundamental question of every revo-
luton, was not placed clearly be-
fore the workers and peasants. The
masses were not acquainted with
the organs of power, the Soviets,
how they should function, how and
where they should be organized.
"a In the very heart of the So
cialist leadership, side by side with
revolutionists, ready for any sacri-
flee, were elements who did not con-
ceal their hostility to the revolution.
go The general strike was not
carried out before the Lerroux-
Robes government was found This
left the initiative in the hands of
the enemy.
co The struggle for national in
dependence in Catalonia was left to
the initiative of the vacillating and
treacherous bourgeoisie, such as
Companys. To be victorious, the
revolution, in all its forms, must be
under the leadership of the pro-
letariat.
Cd The monstrous betrayal and
treachery of the anarchist leaders
was the worst blow of all and
showed them, as Marxism has al
ways described them, as enemies of
the proletarian revolution, who in
the struggles in Spain were found
on the barbados on the side of
faScism.
Anarchists Damaged Fight
The deeds of the anarchists in
Spain in the decisive struggles
against fascism again proved up to
the hilt the historical MARKHAM
criticism of the whole theory and
tactics of anarchism.
Not in all the history of anarch-
ism have their leadership and basic
ideas been SO costly to the workers
as in Spain. This flows, not out of
the tactical mistakes of the Spanish
anarchists in this particular stu
alton, but out of the whole concep-
ton of anarchism in relation to the
class struggle. In Spain the damage
was SO great because the anarchists
had won leadership over 100000
workers and the leaders carried out
their ter-revolutionary concep-
tons at time when the workers
were entering armed struggles
against fascism.
Nothing expresses the treacher-
Gus conceptions of the anarchist
leaders more than their published
comment when number of Spanish
Communists were sent to the African
penal colonies. Borrowing their
phrases from the Trotzkyites, the
anarchists declared to the Commu-
mist prisoners: GO, build Socialism
now in one country!"
In their criticism of the capitalist
state dictatorship, the anarchists
also criticized as bitterly and saw
agely the dictatorship of the pro-
letariat, thereby diverting the work.
ers from the only force and power
which could defeat and destroy the
rule of apitalist-landlord ruling
power. In this they have a COM
mon ground with those who, ike
Kautsky, consider the fascist die
tatorship as on the same plane and
basically undistinguishable from the
proletarian dictatorship.
Anarchism, basically, is the uto-
plan. petty bourgeois philosophy
developed into system of Proudhon
and given organizational expression
by Bakunin, the bitterest enemy of
Marx in the First International. 1t
is based chiefly on the remnants of
the petty bourgeoisie who in the
early stages of capitalism are driven