Quotes about Spanish Revolution

Frida Kahlo

The best hope to smash Fascism in the world.

Francisco Franco

Freemasonry, with all its international influence, is the organization principally responsible for the political ruin of Spain

This quotation shows another example of the paranoia about Masons/ Since the Masons had chapters in many nations, their loyalty was always suspect to the most nationalistic leaders of many countries. In the United States, we even had a national Anti-Masonic Party that elected Congressmen and other politicians. Fear of the foreign—Xenophobia—has existed in many countries.

Federica Montseny

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.

Buenaventura Durruti

We want revolution here in Spain, right now, not maybe after the next European war. We are giving Hitler and Mussolini far more worry with our revolution than the whole Red Army of Russia. We are setting an example to the German and Italian working class on how to deal with Fascism.

Pravda

The Spanish Lenin

Martha Gellhorn

The Spanish people are a glorious people, something is happening in Spain which may mean much to the rest of the world.

The Spanish Civil War was in retrospect the first battle of WWII. Hitler, contemplating a European takeover, provided the Franco Fascist’s with German Air Support, using aerial bombing, not to destroy military targets but to terrorize civilian population centers. The successful tactic was used by the Germans against Warsaw, Amsterdam, London and many other cities.

Buenaventura Durruti

We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the sake of whose peace and tranquility the workers of Germany and China were sacrificed to Fascist barbarians by Stalin. We want revolution here in Spain, right now, not maybe after the next European war. We are giving Hitler and Mussolini far more worry with our revolution than the whole Red Army of Russia. We are setting an example to the German and Italian working class on how to deal with Fascism.

George Orwell

Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist Party, with Soviet Russia behind it, had thrown its whole weight against the revolution. It was the Communist thesis that revolution at this stage would be fatal and that what was to be aimed at in Spain was not workers' control, but bourgeois democracy. It hardly needs pointing out why 'liberal' capitalist opinion took the same line.

Noam Chomsky

The communists were mainly responsible for the destruction of the Spanish anarchists. Not just in Catalonia - the communist armies mainly destroyed the collectives elsewhere.

Murray Bookchin

I don't want to think any longer simply in terms of the Spanish Revolution or the Russian Revolution. It doesn't make any sense to talk [Peter] Makhno to an American.

Spanish Revolution Quotes