The Disinherited (group)
The Disinherited | |
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Los Desheredados | |
Leader | No leader |
Dates of operation | September 26, 1882 | –1885
Split from | Far-left |
Opponents | Spain |
The Disinherited (Spanish: Los Desheredados) was a Spanish clandestine anarchist group that defended the use of violence framed in the doctrine of propaganda of the deed.
History
After the celebration in September 1882 of the
The expelled held a congress at the end of 1882, and then two more in Seville (1883) and in Cádiz (1884) —the latter, the FTRE called a "congress of the disturbers".[2] It was in the Seville Congress that they consolidated how they organized, starting from then on their expansion, as told by The Social Revolution in its April 1885 issue, in which reference was also made to the affair of the Black Hand harshly criticizing the position adopted by the FTRE Federal Commission, accusing it of being an accomplice of the bourgeoisie, thus reflecting the rupture that had occurred within the Spanish anarchism:[3]
As a consequence of the right spirit of that congress, the organization was developing in an extraordinary way, despite the bad means put into play by the federal commission appointed in the Seville public congress; the one to represent the comedy of the Black Hand in Andalusia, chose in it a characteristic role, that of "Slanderer".
It found the occasion (in union with the bourgeoisie) of "knowingly" confusing the workers who were in agreement with its procedures, with certain individual facts that occurred between organized workers belonging to the Spanish Regional Federation; to those who, after having flattered them repeatedly in their acts of ignorance, and eating the pennies that those wretches sent them, had no problem slandering them and betraying them to the bourgeoisie, in the terrible days of revenge.
Its scope of action was the provinces of
According to Josep Termes, "they presented themselves as heirs of the
The persecution of the Andalusian anarchists as a consequence of the Mano Negra affair also affected Los Desinherdados, starting their decline thereafter.[2]
According to Miguel Iñiguez, "the split of Los Desheredados confirmed the fragile unity of the FTRE and that there was a current contrary to circumstantial compromises and favorable to insurrectionary policy, for which the FTRE did not take into consideration the desperate situation of the proletariat Andalusian peasant".[2]
See also
References
- ^ Avilés Farré 2013, p. 136; 159
- ^ a b c d e Iñiguez 2001, p. 182
- ^ Avilés Farré 2013, pp. 159–160
- ^ Termes 2011, p. 102; 104
- ^ a b Termes 2011, p. 104
Bibliography
- ISBN 978-84-8383-753-5.
- Iñiguez, Miguel (2001). Esbozo de una Enciclopedia histórica del anarquismo español (in Spanish). ISBN 84-86864-45-3.
- ISBN 978-84-9006-017-9.