"Durruti never strayed far from his fellow workers. Very early in his life, he challenged the position that the anarchists should be the vanguard of the revolution. He believed that "what anarchists had to do was understand the natural process of rebellion and not separate themselves from the working class under the pretext of serving it better. That would only be a prelude to betrayal and bureaucratization, to a new form of domination." All his life he was a card-carrying member of the CNT who valued hard work, sacrifice, and a strong sense of responsibility to his comrades. During the war, he ate, slept, and fought alongside the men in his column."
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Hunter Jackson, in a review of Durruti in the Spanish Revolution – by Abel Paz and Chuck Morse Working USA, Vol. 12, Number 3 (September 2009)
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Buenaventura Durruti
Buenaventura Durruti (July 14, 1896 – November 20, 1936) was a Spanish-born anarchist, a central figure in Spanish anarchism during the Spanish Civil War.
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