Franco's Fight Against the Left Was a Counter Revolution

Seidman assumes, without real discussion, that the republicans were revolutionaries and thus implicitly illegitimate. That's disputably the truth, as i have documented at great length elsewhere. But calling franco a counter revolutionary is saying the quiet part out loud most historians feel compelled to mouth lies about the supposed legitimacy of the republican regime. The nationalists didn't have the resources to adequately police many provinces, making any repression there during the war impossible.