Anarquismo español y derechos humanos

Abstract

The libertarian world’s proverbial aversion against Law seems evident. Not less obvious is the complex attack led by governmental and non-anarchist media in order to construe the topic of «anti-law» and to counter the libertarian idea of a new society with a chaotic image of a system without Law. This paper questions both the ideological stereotype of anarchism as allergic to everything that relates to Law as well as the biased perception of the anti-Law movement. It refutes both extreme interpretations, on the one hand, on the basis of the theoretical renovation of anarchism and the updating of the new theoretical arguments that since the end of the last century have thrown the anarchist group into confusion; and on the other, retrieving and sequencing the organic textual production of the anarchists with the purpose of revealing the recurrent intervention of Spanish anarchists in their fight for human rights. This is of special importance, since as long as anarchist sectors adopt an attitude of dubious acceptance of these facts, it will not be surprising to see that specialists foreign to anarchism ignore such issues altogether.