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Anarchy And The Nation: German Anarchism, Nationalism, And Revolution In Spain, 1933-1937, Matthew Hall
Anarchy And The Nation: German Anarchism, Nationalism, And Revolution In Spain, 1933-1937, Matthew Hall
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The relationship between anarchism and nationalism is poorly articulated in the scholarly literature and heavily contested within the modern anarchist movement. Between 1933 and 1937, a group of German anarchists, living in Spain and caught in that country's civil war and revolution in 1936, dealt with this question in their time in exile in Barcelona. Never explicitly confronting the issue of nationalism within their ranks, the Gruppe Deutsche Anarchosyndikalisten im Auslands (Gruppe DAS) nevertheless used nationally motivating iconography, discourse, and institutions to strengthen their constituencies and attract new ones. Driven by the demographic and social-situation in pre-war and wartime Barcelona, …