Wars and proxy wars since 1776.
EDIT: The post is not an endorsement of the USSR. You can now stop fighting for your "team" and start defending the anti-war values you claim to uphold.
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2025
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The violence wasn't exclusively from anarchist groups, but in anarchist-dominated areas, the anarchists committed the same kinds of violence that other leftists did.
This isn't to say that the anarchists were not the best of the lot, by far. Only that the notion that anarchists don't engage in unjustified mass violence against political enemies because of the sheer purity of their convictions doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
I gotcha. I believe it. Have any book recs on the topic? Think this'll probably be the my next lil history read after I'm done 100 Years War on Palestine
edit: topic being spanish civil war period
Most of this is recollected from college. I can definitely recommend Orwell's Homage to Catalonia for a ground-eye view of the Spanish Civil War in general, though.
Cool cool, yeah i was reading on the wikipedia that he fought in the war. Will probably pick that up next. Thanks!
If you don't mind reading online, you can get it for free