Anarchism as a factor of modernization: the example of Granada

Abstract

In recent years, historiography has overcome the view of Spanish anarchism as an anachronistic movement in modern times, with the consequent assumptions and political implications. Today, through research based on data and concrete facts, we know that Spanish anarchism was, for better or worse, a mainly modern, urban movement that was predominant in many of the industrial centers.

In this paper we will show the example of Granada in all of the above, where anarchism, which was predominant in the town, was a modernized and modernizing element, which interpreted, applied and, finally, contributed, in the society of its time, mainly in six fields that we have divided: 1) Schooling; 2) Secularization; 3) Culture; 4) Associationism; 5) Urbanity; 6) Unionism.