"...Steltonites didn’t hide their radicalism, raising a red fag on the water tower (which angry locals climbed up and tore down)..."
I... assume this is a typo? I had to reread a few times.
I... assume this is a typo? I had to reread a few times.
Later on, communists and anarchists would part ways, mostly during the Russian revolutions even though some diverged earlier.
But make no mistake, there is very little ambiguity in most historical anarchist movements: their ideals are socialists. The reason why a lot of them they rejected communism was not because of their socialist ideals, but because of the policies they implemented in practice, that were very authoritarian. Anarchists were very early considered political opponents by USSR. Censorship for instance is totally incompatible with anarchism.
While many people are aware of the anarchist influence and success leading to the Spanish Civil War, much less well known is the large anarchist region established in southern Ukraine fifteen years earlier, between 1917 - 1922.
This was centered around the figure of Nestor Makhno.[1] The armed forces defending this area had great success defeating various White armies and were allied with the Bolsheviks. Unfortunately, the Bolsheviks ultimately betrayed and destroyed the Makhnovshchina.