DISCOURSES ON NATION AND HOMELAND IN SPANISH ANARCHISM IN THE TURN OF THE 19TH TO 20TH CENTURIES

The. Spanish social historiography did not show much interest on the question of dual identity class/nation. The idea of class was not a central issue in anarchist thought whose emancipatory, universalist and cosmopolitan discourse was addressed to humanity as a whole, and not only to working class. However, the idea of nation, like that of homeland, and its expressions -nationalism and patriotism- were an essential part of the anarchist discourse of challenge of the Stage and its institutions. But in both cases, the question of identities acquired in the not univocal anarchist discourse, a very diverse and, even apparently, contradictory formulations.