Recently, I’ve noticed that plenty of commentators in the press and in politics have found it fashionable to label political figures they do not like as fascists. One consequence is that the meaning of the word has morphed to the extent that many people have no real idea what fascism’s characteristics are. Most of us […]
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George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War
Today I was reminded of one of my favorite stories from history, George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, the Spanish Civil War began. On one side were the forces of the slightly left-of-center elected Spanish government, on the other, the hard-right fascist rebels of general Francisco Franco. After the war began, various […]