Cultura libertaria, poética republicana: Conexiones entre anarquismo y republicanismo antes de la Guerra Civil

Abstract

Spanish republicanism and anarchism shared a large part of their values, spaces and quite a few actions from the beginning of the sexenio democrático until the end of the Second Republic. However, they have almost always been represented as totally separate and opposing movements. This article therefore deals with several key moments of collaboration and mutual influence between the two tendencies—Pi i Margall's federalist project, the Montjuïc trials, blasquism, the Tragic Week, Lerrouxism and the proclamation of the Second Republic. Based on a theoretical framework that questions the irrationalist paradigm of Spanish historiography on the anarchist movement, the article puts forward the hypothesis that anarchist culture was a determining factor in the survival of republican values between 1874 and 1931. To this end, it connects recent publications on the anarchist and republican movements with primary sources from the period.