Effects of Communists not betraying Anarchists

Sachyriel

Banned
Suppose, for a minute or so, if the Communists (Red Block) had not betrayed the Anarchists (Black Block/White Block), and they stayed a semi-united front?

Would the movement be stronger?
Who would have more members?
Would Communism have spread more rapidly?
Would Communism have longer sticking power?

In OTL, Communists are back-stabbing anarchists, even the white block (peaceful) anarchists. After a couple of centuries of this, you can tell why the fractures are deep, and Communism receive barely lip service from Anarchists.

Add some more questions after you put your input.

Some examples known are the Spanish Civil War, the Russian Revolution and of course, today, with every anarchist on edge for any sign of Communist activity against Anarchists, is both humiliating and divisive.
 

Sachyriel

Banned
Yeah, but that's the challenge. Get your mind running. Get Labour more votes, less divisions and more revolutionary sentiment.
 
Suppose, for a minute or so, if the Communists (Red Block) had not betrayed the Anarchists (Black Block/White Block), and they stayed a semi-united front?

Would the movement be stronger?
Who would have more members?
Would Communism have spread more rapidly?
Would Communism have longer sticking power?

In OTL, Communists are back-stabbing anarchists, even the white block (peaceful) anarchists. After a couple of centuries of this, you can tell why the fractures are deep, and Communism receive barely lip service from Anarchists.

Add some more questions after you put your input.

Some examples known are the Spanish Civil War, the Russian Revolution and of course, today, with every anarchist on edge for any sign of Communist activity against Anarchists, is both humiliating and divisive.

I don't quite understand.
Admitting I don't know this subject all too well, I'll speak of what I can recall:
As far as I know, the early socialist movement was wrotted with inner quarells, much of this between the Communists and Anarchists. I can hardly say either side backstabbed the other, since they were opposed to one another from the start due to their unsolveable ideological argument (authoritarianism vs. libertarianism).
The Anarchist movement was largely persecuted by the western world's conservative imperialist/capitalist governments, to a greater extent than the Communists, at first. This was due to anarchism's complete opposition to their authoritarian style and due to the anarchists' own actions (the wave of political assasinations we all remember), as well as some other factors.
Anarchism never really grabbed hold anyway, I'd say. This is logical, since Anarchists were usually a bit less organized (or less-sharply organized) then their Communist counterparts, with less overwhelming leader'type characters.
In any case, Communists and Anarchists fought side by side in the Spanish Civil War IOTL. Didn't do them much good then, though.
I doubt the difference the anarchists would make anywhere else. Only in Italy and Spain did anarchism/syndicalism really grew roots. Both of these saw a painful reaction from the right.
 
comunism is statist and emfasises on administartion, colectivnes, service to the state and so on

anarhism does not

the two dont work together
especially not in SSSR
 
Suppose, for a minute or so, if the Communists (Red Block) had not betrayed the Anarchists (Black Block/White Block), and they stayed a semi-united front?

Would the movement be stronger?
Who would have more members?
Would Communism have spread more rapidly?
Would Communism have longer sticking power?

In OTL, Communists are back-stabbing anarchists, even the white block (peaceful) anarchists. After a couple of centuries of this, you can tell why the fractures are deep, and Communism receive barely lip service from Anarchists.

Add some more questions after you put your input.

Some examples known are the Spanish Civil War, the Russian Revolution and of course, today, with every anarchist on edge for any sign of Communist activity against Anarchists, is both humiliating and divisive.

The Whites weren't Anarchist. They fought both the Reds and the Anarchists (there was also the Greens, but I don't know much about them), and the Reds and Anarchists were either fighting each other or fighting with each other against the Whites.
 
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