Anarchism and organization: decentralization in libertarian Spain (C.N.T. 1936-1939)

• Grant number: 11/21390-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 01, 2012
• End date: December 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - State and Government
• Principal Investigator: Bruno Konder Comparato
• Grantee: Caio Fernando Alves Duarte Santos
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Anarchism, a political and phylosophical theory appeared in the middle of the 18th century, is usually related to lack of political and social organization. Its most expressive realization, in terms of political praxis, can be limited to the first half of the 19th century. This research is intended to demonstrate, from the bibliographical revision of the classic authors of the anarchism - Bakunin, Proudhon and Kropotkin -, the organizational characteristics of this political theory and how it developed in the Spanish civil war experience, beginning, especially, by the organizative realizations of the C.N.T. (National Work Confederation). Beyond this, I will try to dialogue with the iron law of the oligarchies created by Robert Michels, trying to observate this sociological law in the libertarian experience of Spain. (AU)