Anarchist Studies |
Many anarcho-syndicalists claim that their approach, based on a factory system, and the economic needs of workers, is the central if not the exclusive concern of modern anarchism. In doing so, they often ignore the earlier and more significant communalist tendencies and moral dimensions in anarchism. These early and persistent dimensions are explored, challenging the claims to exclusivity of anarcho-syndicalism and its privileging of the industrial proletariat as a hegemonic force in social change. The behaviour of various anarcho-syndicalist organizations, the industrial collectives in Spain, and syndicalist leaders in a period of social upheaval and revolution are examined. The concept of citizen, which encompasses not only workers but many transclass elements and issues, is advanced Ð as is the need for a communalist emphasis, of which the interests of industrial workers are a part Ð as a more appropriate approach to modern social phenomena and social change.
This Paper analyses the degree of success that the radical psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich obtained in spreading his views on the organization of sexuality under capitalism with reference to Spain. Fundamental to Wilhelm Reich's thesis of sex-economy was the perceived need for an international sex-economic organization and this article assesses the reception of his writings and activities among the revolutionary sectors of the Spanish left. The revolutionary socialist, Trotskyist and anarchist press of the 1930s is examined and inter-organizational links on an international level are discussed. Examples are taken from journals such as the Revista Blanca and Leviatan as well as from Reich's own Zeitschrift fur politische Psychologie und Sexualokonomie. The reception of radical ideas on sex is placed in the context of anarchism's ability to embrace new ideas, which placed it ahead intellectually of its counterparts on the left.
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