Review: Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship. With an introduction by Peter Werbe.

Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship. With an introduction by Peter Werbe. by NOAM CHOMSKY; Introduction by Peter Werbe
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Gabriel Jackson
The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-39

The complexities of modern society that baffled and confounded the unsuspecting anarchist workers of Barcelona, as Jackson enumerates them, were the following: the accumulating food and supply problems and the administration of frontier posts, villages, and public utilities. As just noted, the food and supply problems seem to have accumulated most rapidly under the brilliant leadership of Juan Comorera. So far as the frontier posts are concerned, the situation, as Jackson elsewhere de-scribes it (p. 368), was basically as follows: "In Catalonia the anarchists had, ever since July 18, controlled the customs stations at the French border. On April 17, 1937, the reorganized carabineros, acting on orders of the Finance Minister, Juan Negrín, began to reoccupy the frontier. At least eight anarchists were killed in clashes with the carabineros." Apart from this difficulty, admittedly serious, there seems little rea-son to suppose that the problem of manning frontier posts contributed to the ebbing of the revolutionary tide.

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