Memoria del comunismo

Diving into the original sources - from Marx, Bakunin and Lenin, to Che and Pablo Iglesias - this book explains the real nature of communism, its philosophical and political roots, the common errors about its history and the most terrible fact: that, one hundred years and a hundred million deaths later, it continues to be a respected ideology among politicians, teachers and journalists. In two European countries, Russia and Spain, attempts were made to create a communist regime in the 20th century. In Russia, after five years of Lenin's fierce civil war against his people, communism triumphed. In Spain, after an atrocious three-year civil war, he lost. But Stalin's role in the war is discussed - from Paracuellos and the death of Nin to the gold of the Bank of Spain - and the actions of the two Spanish communisms are hidden: the Marxist PCE, the Bolshevist PSOE or the POUM; and the Bakuninist of the CNT-FAI, who imposed the red terror in Catalonia with the enthusiastic help of Companys. Neither Russia under the Cheka nor Spain under the Czechs are remembered today. Only that and the success of Soviet propaganda since 1917 explain the emergence and success of Podemos. The worst thing about Lenin's system is not that it believes it has the right to impose his dictatorship and kill his opponents, but that democratic societies accept that right to steal and kill from the communists. This Memory of Communism reminds us why it happens. And how, knowing its history and that of Spain, it can be avoided.