The Anarchist Collectives by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Spain, Spanish Revolution, Collectives, Libertarian Communism, Practice, Praxis, 1936–1939, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, Dolgoff, Puente, Leval, Souchy Dantillan, Peirats
Published: 1974-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

Some kind of family wage became quite common in the Spanish collectives. This wage was assigned to families and varied according to the number of members in a family. It was based on the needs of the family rather than on the product of the family members. The exact nature of a particular family wage system depended on numerous things (like the relative abundance or scarcity of necessities for a collective or region). This led to a wide variety of “monetary” experiments. Leval comments that:

In regions like Castile, Catalonia, or in the Levant, where the republican state was more entrenched, the “peseta,” official national currency based on the gold standard, was retained. Although obliged to use the “peseta” as the standard of value and unit of distribution, the libertarian communist collectives adopted the family wage...Where the state was weaker, each village tackled exchange in its own fashion. In such localities, above all Aragon, local collectives issued as many as 250 and even 300 different kinds of local money, vouchers, coupons, ration booklets, metal tokens, cards, etc.[39] (Espagne Libertaire, pp. 203, 208)

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