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It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy.
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Freedom, or individual liberty, was a basic premise of the Spanish anarchist tradition. "Individual sovereignty" is a prime tenet of most anarchist writing; the free development of one' s individual potential is one of the basic "rights" to which all humans are born. Yet Spanish anarchists were firmly rooted in the communalist-anarchist tradition. For them, freedom was fundamentally a social product: the fullest expression of individuality and of creativity can be achieved only in and through co
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― Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women
― Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women
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Book club founded in 2008 based in Barcelona, Spain
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A corner to discuss books about the Spanish Civil War
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