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Though the POUM were socialists, he wrote "as far as my purely personal preferences went I would have liked to join the Anarchists."

His vivid descriptions of classless anarchist Barcelona following the revolution and terrorised Stalinist Barcelona after the counter-revolution are a timeless reminder that a 'revolutionary state' is a contradiction in terms.

This extensive work is available online thanks to History Is A Weapon, who OCRed the text, though we heartily recommend our readers to buy a hard copy.

[Chapter IV from The Digger Movement In The Days Of The Commonwealth, by Lewis H. Berens. Taken from the Project Gutenberg text.]

It is now mostly out of print. However, he writes extensively on many trends and schools of thought related to Cuba and its history.

Thanks to See Sharp Press for permitting this book to be posted online. This text was taken and slightly edited by libcom.org from the Anarchist People of Colour (US) website.

Clearly written and interesting, it is a good introduction to CW's ideas, though we at libcom.org would have several important disagreements with it. Notably on the issues of class and nationalism

Text taken from the Anarchy Archives

Detailed account of worker-controlled agriculture in revolutionary Spain

COLLECTIVES IN THE SPANISH REVOLUTION
by Gaston Leval
Published by Freedom Press, London, 1975

Text from anarchosyndicalism.net

Anarchism: From Theory to Practice
Daniel Guerin

The Incomplete Marx
Felton C. Shorthall