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 Welcome to Mini Makhno and Durruti's School of Revolution.  Miniature wargames can teach us much about history. In an entertaining afternoon, we can immerse ourselves in historic moments, and try to tease out some lessons, some of which may even apply to the present or future. 

Nestor Makhno and Buenaventura Durruti were two working-class anarchists who rose to lead revolutionary movements in their home countries of Ukraine (1918-21) and Spain (1936-39). Both served not only as ideological torches for their people, but as top commanders of volunteer armies of peasants and workers, fighting against professional armies, while spreading freedom and equality across their lands.

Anarchism is an anticapitlist movement that has been growing and developing for two centuries. Most critiques against anarchism challenge its political and economic ideas and practices. The few large-scale anarchist revolutions, however, excelled politically and economically, with freedoms gained by the oppressed across great swaths of territory,  and voluntary collectives and communes unleashing huge increases of crops yields and other products to meet the needs of the people. All of the anarchist revolutions have been defeated, instead, militarily.  

Unfortunately,  the military lessons of anarchist history are among the least studied by today's anarchists. One day a great research project undertaken by a better author than I will hopefully chronicle, analyze,  and draw important conclusions from the history of anarchists at arms. 

For now, however, and refusing to take ourselves too seriously, we will follow miniature Makhno and tiny Durruti as they lead us across our kitchen table battlefields, into the revolutionary history of the early 20th century.