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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

The Spanish Civil War - pg. 187

The most searching criticism of the CNT-FAI
leadership's decision to enter the government
came from the veteran French anarchist, Sebastian
Faure, who had invented the word 'libertarian'. He
insisted that, if it was right to discard opposition to
the concept of the state out of temporary necessity,
then it could not be a valid principle. There was,
of course, point to Faure's remark. The previous
autumn the anarchist leaders had refused to join the
government because 'the "worker-state" signals the
beginning of a new political slavery'. But when
they did finally join Largo's government, in November
1936, the anarchist press defended the decision in a
manner which suggested that black had suddenly become white.

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