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During the Spanish Civil War, the Spanish anarchist movement became not only the driving force behind a social revolution but an active participant in an increasingly modern conflict which would eventually see thousands of its affiliates and militants serving on the frontline within the Republican Army. This article proposes to examine how military images, themes and symbols came to dominate anarchism's wartime culture, in the process reconciling their antimilitarist ideals with front-line service and asserting their exceptional quality as antifascist warriors. Examining a geographically and ideologically broad set of cultural materials, this article demonstrates a high degree of participation by many sections of the anarchist movement in the heavily militarised culture of the wartime Republic and European antifascism. This manifested itself in cults of battlefield heroism, the veneration of combative masculinity and the situating of 'the front' as the moral centre of the movement.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. The Rise Of Egalitarianism -- 1. Early Principles of Inequality and Equality -- 1.1 The Greek view of inequality -- 1.2 Equality before the law of nature -- 1.3 The medieval view of inequality -- 2. The Transition to Liberalism -- 2.1 The sources of change: the breaking up of authority -- 2.2 The sources of change: the shaping of new habits of mind -- 2.3 The impact of change: Sir Thomas More's Utopia -- 2.4 Individualism -- 3. The Equality of Man in the Eighteenth Century -- 3.1 Locke and equality -- 3.2 The Declaration of Independence -- 3.3 The Declaration of the Rights of Men and Citizens -- 3.4 Social inequality as the British eighteenth century saw it -- 3.5 The English tradition of revolt and levelling -- 3.6 The limits of eighteenth-century liberalism -- 4. Eighteenth-Century Developments Propitious to Egalitarianism -- 4.1 Monetization and political arithmetick -- 4.2 Taxation as an instrument of redistribution -- 4.3 The bond of common humanity -- 5. Action Delayed -- 5.1 The obstacles to redistribution -- 5.2 Early socialism-was not primarily egalitarian -- 6. The Movement into Redistribution -- 6.1 The rise of administration -- 6.2 The later development of administration -- 6.3 The expansion of resources -- 6.4 A new view of society -- 6.5 Marx and equality -- 7. The Formation of Modern Egalitarianism -- 7.1 Changes in the setting -- 7.2 The growing awareness of social need -- 7.3 Changes of outlook -- 7.4 The years of application -- 7.5 The difference of attitudes in the United States -- 8. Issues and Influences Reviewed -- 8.1 The justification of inequality -- 8.2 The grounds of belief in personal equality -- 8.3 The possibility of changing society -- 8.4 The promotion of egalitarianism as a practical policy -- 8.5 A consideration of causes.

Using the methods of reasoned history and comparative statistics, this work arrives at an assessment of egalitarianism. It traces the rise of egalitarianism from the Renaissance and Reformation onwards. A complementary approach is provided by a wide survey of actual distributions of income and wealth