What do you guys think of him? Presumably killed by german volounteers within the PSOE, because he favoured immediate revolution. His Party was the POUM, and the graffiti of that party's members after his dissappearance wrote: "To the Negrin-government: Where is Nin?" (The PSOE followers ofter reacted, as a accusation of Nin being a fascist: "In Salamanca or Berlin") As you can see in my sig, I quite like the guy.
I think that he was one of the most fucked up person from SCW. First he was member of CNT. Then he wanted that CNT join the 3rd international aka. komitern. CNT didn't want that and the kicked him out. So he founded Communist Party of Spain which was nothing but Stalin's puppets in Spain. Later he founded POUM. What more to say to guy who was anarchist-stalinist-trotskyist in few years?!
Nin definitely failed to lead the working class, he capitulated to the liberal bourgeoisie and was basically a left-wing social democrat. He participated in the bourgeois Popular Front government at a time when it was politically maneuvering against the armed and organized workers, and even after the POUM got kicked out of government at the behest of the Stalinists, Nin continued to orient towards liberalism, demanding the POUM be let back into government instead of demanding the formation of workers' councils. In spite of that, Nin was absolutely not a Stalinist.The PCE he founded was a small but genuine working-class party, not the pro-Soviet officers' club it became under the Stalinized Comintern. Nin directly protested against the PCE being turned into a lifeless appendage of Moscow and was one of the original founders of the International Left Opposition, having become a sympathizer in 1926. To say that he was Stalinist is even worse than glorifying him as the main leader of the Spanish proletariat. Nin was murdered by the Stalinists in a false flag operation, as part of a conscious and documented Comintern policy of exterminating suspected Trotskyists and anarchists in Spain, to remove any left-wing rivals to the PCE for their planned takeover of the bourgeois state. The memory of those leftists slain by the SIM and NKVD in Spain should be respected just as we learn from the mistakes which led to their defeat at the hands of that triumvirate of Stalinism, liberalism and reformism known as the Popular Front. As for Nin's opposition to syndicalism, the CNT/FAI committed the same fatal error as the POUM: political capitulation to the bourgeois government, abandonment of the struggle for workers' power.
