Anarchist Car Designs in Spanish Civil War
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At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the car industries of Catalunya were taken over by anarchist collectives and not only run more efficiently, but with greater style. From that moment on, car designs took on a futurist look.

Some better quality images I was able to find:

  • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    5 days ago

    to defend against the republicans

    meow-anarchist You mean the Nationalists. The anarchists were on the Republican side.

    Those are some cool looking designs. I especially love the second pic. The holes at the front make it look very intimidating as if it has eyes that are watching the enemy.

      • TerribleHands [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        15·
        5 days ago

        Radical anarchist groups skirmished against communists and liberal republicans for like a week in Barcelona, known as the May Days, but that didn’t really compare to the conflict against the Nationalists.

        Not trying to make a dig at you at all, but I find it frustrating that the Spanish Civil War has been so heavily characterised by small incidents of leftist infighting, when really it was probably the single greatest example of diverse leftist unity behind a single cause in history. I think it’s come from an attempt by western leftists like Orwell to discredit Stalin, and it’s just stuck in the popular understanding of the conflict.