When I was a child, I was fortunate enough to meet and speak with an old man who fought with the Anarchists in the Spanish civil war. As he described it, their ideology was virtually identical to modern American Libertarians, looking for a utopian society based essentially on villages and with no central government.

Even a child, something bugged me about it... something didn't sound quite right... and I had trouble putting my finger on exactly what it was. I think you've hit the nail right on the head though.

If you put that objection to an anarchist though, they would dismiss it and say something along the lines of it wouldn't be a problem in practice, because the people wouldn't let it. Needless to say, given the choice, I won't be voting #1 anarchist party.

My grandparents fled Spain after the Spanish Civil War to Venezuela. When my grandmother became bedridden with hip maladies, they had to go to government doctors for a hip replacement surgery. The wait for the surgery was bearable, but the wait for physical therapy was not. She became bedridden again and died of hemosepsis. I never got to meet her.
I cannot help but imagine this becoming an actuality in the U.S.

I had gotten myself so excited to see this movie, then when I went on opening night I was let down. They marketed it as this huge fantasy movie and then most of the fantasy elements were revealed in commercials. I wish they'd just picked one story to tell. Felt like either the Fantasy part or the Spanish Civil War part could have stood alone as a film but together, not so much.

For more about the ghost story "The Devil's Backbone":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Backbone

More about this director, Guillermo del Toro, who also directed "Pan's Labyrinth":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_del_Toro

By the way, both "The Devil's Backbone" and "Pan's Labyrinth" are set during the Spanish Civil War.

^ Well, the movie was written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, who is Mexican. And the film was set a the end of the Spanish Civil War. And this scene is creepy.

This is a PBS American Master Series documentary covering the life of Robert Capa.

Robert Capa (Budapest, October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was possibly the most famous war photographer of the 20th century. He covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War. Capa documented the course of World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, the Battle of Normandy on Omaha Beach and the liberation of Paris.

From 1936 to 1939, he was in Spain, photographing the horrors the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, he became known across the globe for a photo he took on the Cordoba Front of a Loyalist Militiaman who had just been shot and was in the act of falling to his death. Because of his proximity to the victim and the timing of the capture, there was a long controversy about the authenticity of this photograph. Historians eventually succeeded in identifying the dead soldier as Federico Borrell García, from Alcoy (Valencia) and proved it authentic.

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Robert Capa (Budapest, October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was possibly the most famous war photographer of the 20th century. He covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War. Capa documented the course of World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, the Battle of Normandy on Omaha Beach and the liberation of Paris.

From 1936 to 1939, he was in Spain, photographing the horrors the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, he became known across the globe for a photo he took on the Cordoba Front of a Loyalist Militiaman who had just been shot and was in the act of falling to his death. Because of his proximity to the victim and the timing of the capture, there was a long controversy about the authenticity of this photograph. Historians eventually succeeded in identifying the dead soldier as Federico Borrell García, from Alcoy (Valencia) and proved it authentic.

- More @ <ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Capa">Wikipedia