Buenaventura Durruti Quotes
The only church that illuminates is a burning church.
During the Spanish Civil War, the Roman Catholic Church—the only major Christian Church in Spain—sided with the Fascists in overthrowing the elected government and ousting the king. The church also supported the German Nazi bombing of undefended Spanish towns where there were concentrations of Republicans supporting the elected government. While there were a few Catholic worker priests on the Republican side, the church buildings and the hierarchy of the Church was part of the Fascist axis. Therefore churches were burned whenever possible, often with the help and participation of the Catholic worker priests many of whose churches had been bombed. Although Durruti often said this, he did not originate it; Peter Kropotkin did.
Buenaventura Durruti, 1896-1936, Spanish Libertarian Communist Leader, interview with Pierre van Paassen, July 24, 1936; published in The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936
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José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange was a Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant involved with the CNT, FAI and other anarchist organisations during the period leading up to and including the Spanish Civil War. Durruti played an influential role during the Spanish Revolution and is remembered as a hero in the anarchist movement.
