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Are you talking about the wing of the FAI that coalesced into a centralizing/disciplining/pro-state tendency represented by Abad de Santillan? Or the wing of the FAI that remained anti-statist, represented by the AAD? Neither tendency was Marxist in any meaningful sense of the word, but rather showcased the internal tensions and contradictions among Iberian libertarians: a right wing that was soft on the Republic and wanted to collaborate in moderating the anti-state/anti-capitalist extremists (or "purists" in the language of the day) in order to win the war; and a left wing that maintained a principled opposition to statecraft and capitalism (today we might call that tendency "insurrectionary"). Please clarify your (mis)characterization.