Re: Spain 1936 :Land, Freedom ,and Polemics

["Bryan A. Alexander" <bnalexan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like a good candidate for our seminar on 1930s Spain, if we do it.



Bryan Alexander
Department of English
University of Michigan
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On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Louis N Proyect wrote:

> On 10 Jan 1996, Chris, London wrote:
>
> > I have invested in "The Spanish Civil War" by Hugh Thomas, Penguin 1986, to 
> > be
> > able to check claims. Any warnings from anybody? Its anti-communism appears 
> > at
> > any rate quite transparent.
> >
> > Seems Thomas is not too sympathetic to anarchism either.
> >
>
> Louis: I recommend Felix Morrow's book on the Spanish Civil War, if it is
> still in print. Morrow presents a Trotskyist [i.e., Marxist] analysis
> without the additional burden of Trotsky's tendency toward sectarianism when
> writing about groups other than those adhering to the Fourth International.
>
> Morrow went on to become a journalist for Fortune magazine. There were
> actually a number of Trotskyist writers who took up employment at
> prestigious business publications as the possibility for revolutions grew
> remote.
>
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