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As is usual with materials like this from Black Rose Anarchist Federation, it is completely abstract. It is not grounded in living examples of what happened in anarchist-inclined mass social upheavals in the past. They cannot say anything in a concise and to the point way.

The eight hundred pound gorilla that is always in the middle of the room here, is; why, beginning from a position of overwhelming numbers and strength in relation to its enemies inside the Spanish Republic did the anarchist movement fail so completely, and without a real fight at any point, against its initially numerically small and weak opponents, who were openly committed to salvaging capitalist class power, the bourgeois state, and to defeating the revolution?

All evidence suggests that under the most optimal conditions for an anarchist-inspired social revolution that have ever existed -- and are ever likely to exist -- anarchist conceptions of revolutionary power dynamics were completely inadequate to the task at hand.

A real mass revolutionary movement will have to have some unfortunately non-anarchistic qualities in order to defeat its enemies and clear the way for the emergence of a new kind of society.