Editing Twenty-one Conditions (section)

==PSOE congress==
At the July 1920 [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party|PSOE]] congress [[Fernando de los Ríos]] proposed that the PSOE should join the [[Communist International]] only if defined conditions were met.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biografia de Fernando de los Ríos |url=https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/r/rios_fernando.htm |access-date=2022-10-17 |website=www.biografiasyvidas.com}}</ref> He and [[Daniel Anguiano]] were appointed to visit [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Soviet Russia]] to discuss membership of the PSOE in the Communist International. Their trip lasted from 17 October to 13 December 1920.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Ríos Urruti, Fernando de los |url=https://fpabloiglesias.es/entrada-db/rios-urruti-fernando-de-los/ |access-date=2022-10-17 |website=Fundación Pablo Iglesias |language=es}}</ref> While in Moscow de los Ríos met Lenin, who answered a question by de los Ríos about the compatibility between personal freedom and the length of the dictatorship of the proletariat with the often-quoted answer, „Freedom, what for?“.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-10-21 |title=Fernando de los Ríos, un intelectual en el Gobierno republicano |url=https://www.diariosur.es/malaga-capital/fernando-rios-intelectual-20171019184254-nt.html |access-date=2022-10-17 |website=Diario Sur |language=es}}</ref> De los Rios, who believed in a [[Fabian Society|Fabian]]-humanist form of socialism, told his hosts in Russia that the PSOE should have the right to pick and choose from the Twenty-one Conditions, and should be completely independent of Moscow. This was completely unacceptable to the [[Bolsheviks]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Salvadó |first=Francisco J. Romero Romero |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P_2GDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA96 |title=The Agony of Spanish Liberalism: From Revolution to Dictatorship 1913–23 |date=2010-05-26 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-230-27464-8 |language=en}}</ref>

At the PSOE Extraordinary Congress in April 1921 Anguiano gave a positive report on the Moscow visit and de los Ríos gave a negative report. The congress voted to reject the Twenty-one Conditions demanded by Moscow. Supporters of the Third International left the PSOE and formed the [[Spanish Communist Workers' Party (1921)|Spanish Communist Workers Party]], which combined with the [[Spanish Communist Party]] to form the [[Communist Party of Spain]].<ref name=":0" />