Xtort Posted September 21, 2017 Posted September 21, 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Catalonia - some basic info on this topic I have been using the skills I learned in Stefan's introduction to philosophy series to test myself against our greatest opponents, communists, for years. One thing I have noticed with all flavors of communism is that they love to present Catalonia as an example of communism actually working. It was never presented as an actual argument, so I never bothered to look into it, until recently. To hear a communist describe Catalonia, it was a peaceful idyllic place where equality was the norm and the wants and needs of society were done away with. This near utopia lasted a few short years until those dastardly fascists came and tore it all down. The reality, as I have recently learned, is far different. Communists did as communists always do. They killed anyone that opposed them, and of course anyone to the right of Karl Marx was a fascist enemy. They were particularly brutal with the church, perhaps more so than the capitalists they sent into hiding. The people they didn't call, they forced into labor camps and while they were more humane by far than the concentration camps of Germany, it was still forced labor as a punishment for not being a communist. My knowledge on the topic is cursory at best, but I would love an in-depth piece done on this by Stefan. Partly because it is interesting, and partly because for communists this is the go-to for proving the potential of communism.
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