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SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 6 days agoSpain in the 1930s?
Yeah great, anarchism works until it gets taken over by a dictator.
An ideology that only works if you can get everyone in the world to believe in it is more of a religion than a viable political movement.
Zombie@feddit.uk 6 days ago
Most of Europe in the 1940s was defeated by the very same forces that defeated Spain in the 1930s. Except they had the ability to learn the lessons of Spain and had the backing of international capital and the world’s most renowned militaries.
Does that prove the failures of capitalism, representative democracy, or parliamentary monarchies?
Blitzkrieg was a brand new warfare technique which the Spanish had to contend with and they lasted 3 years against the Axis powers whilst also trying a new form of political, social, and economic organisation. I think you should read up on the Spanish civil war some more, it’s an incredible period of history which if anything proves the strengths of anarchism despite the Republicans ultimately losing.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
I think you should read up on WWII. After going through a civil war, Spain was not in any shape to contribute much of anything to the fascist side in WWII. After WWII, France wanted the allies to do a regime change in in Spain, since they weren’t comfortable with fascists on their border for obvious reasons. But instead the allies opted for containment and isolation. It sucked for people in Spain for decades, but after Franco died they moved on from fascism. Regime change eventually happened in Spain without the need for other countries to invade.
Right now nobody in the Middle East is all that happy living next to Iran. Iran is pretty fascist, so do you think Trump is right in going to war with Iran?
I think you’ve got some tunnel vision on WWII and think it has to go that way and aren’t understanding all of the instances where regime change has not gone well. Maybe you think guys like Saddam Hussein and the Ayatollah of Iran are good guys and not oppressive authoritarian leaders or something? But they were/are horrible authoritarians and the same rationalization for other countries to get involved in some war in the US is the same rationalization for why the US gets involved in regime change operations in various parts of the world.