Catalonia: The Greatest Revolt in Western Europe

The wave of collectivizations that swept over spain in the summer and autumn of 19 36 has been described as the greatest experiment in workers self management western europe has ever seen. In more thoroughly anarchist areas, particularly among the agrarian collectives, money was eliminated and the material means of life were allocated strictly according to need rather than work. The ancient dream of a collective society without profit or property was made reality. And again, as bookche notes, this is different everywhere t in republican spain. But in catalonia, which has a lot of industrial areas, three quarters of the industrial economy is directly controlled by the workers manning these factories, as opposed to them