Description
Dismantled during the frontage of the large landowners the timid agrarian reformism sought by the Contracts Act cultivation, more concerned with stabilizing the existing agrarian structure to help the needy sectors of the field, with the advent of the revolution, those sectors resolved the problem by appropriating the means of production. Girona region was no exception in this regard, and here the peasants went beyond all expectations, including the surprise leaders of libertarians. Factors such as a higher degree of class consciousness, a product of the peasant struggles of the Republican period, and the attitude of the owners, derogatory to the republican principle of equal rights between individuals, social relations had been poisoned in the field and helped quite to this outcome, even more than economic interests.
