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Interview with Buenaventura Durruti, by Pierre Van Paasen from the Toronto
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Daily Star, Madrid, 1936:
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"For us it is a question of crushing fascism once and for all. Yes, in spite
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of government.
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No government in the world fights fascism to the death. When the bourgeoisie
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sees power slipping from its grasp it has recourse to fascism to maintain
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itself. The liberal government in Spain could have rendered the fascist
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elements powerless long ago. Instead it temporised and compromised and
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dallied. Even now at this moment, there are men in this government who want
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to go easy with the rebels. You can never tell, you know - the present
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government might yet need these rebellious forces to crush the workers'
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movement...
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We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union
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somewhere in the world, for the sake of whose tranquillity the workers of
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Germany and Spain were sacrificed to fascist barbarism by Stalin. We want
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the revolution here in Spain, right now, not maybe after the next European
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war. We are giving Hitler and Mussolini far more worry today with our
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revolution than the whole Red Army of Russia. We are setting an example
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to the German and Italian working class how to deal with fascism.
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I do not expect any help for a libertarian revolution from any government
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in the world. Maybe the conflicting interests in the various imperialisms
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might have some influence on our struggle. That is quite possible. Franco
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is doing his best to drag Europe into the conflict. He will not hesitate
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to pitch Germany in against us. But we expect no help, not even from our
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government in the last analysis.
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[Pierre Van Paasen interjects: 'You will be sitting on a pile of ruins if
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you are victorious.']
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We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to
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accomodate ourselves for a time. For you must not forget, we can also build.
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It is we who built those palaces and cities here in Spain and America and
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everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And
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better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to
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inherit the earth. There is not the slightest doubt about that. The
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bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage
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of history. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is
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growing this minute."
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