Notes on how to start a political party

Introduction This article is about how, not why, the Socialist Party was tentatively established in the city of Granada in 1892. It would eventuate that the Socialists would dominate working class politics in the city by 1936. Such dominance came at the expense of anarchism which was the most popular form of political protest among the working class of Andalucia during the last three decades of the 19th century and at moments during the first three decades of the 20th. My interest in this problem stems from the following questions: (1) how did a largely illiterate working class public learn its politics? (2) In the case of Granada, how did the adherents of socialism learn to distinguish it from what was the dominant working class ideology, anarchism? (3) What mechanisms and practices induced the workers of Granada to sympathise with the Socialist Party as opposed to anarchism? (4) How did the Socialists go about organising a new party

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