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                                             December 28, 2010
                                             August   19, 2013
"Looking back on the Spanish War",
George Orwell (1943):                            ORWELL_AT_WAR


  "When one thinks of all the people who support or
  have supported Fascism, one stands amazed at
  their diversity. What a crew! Think of a
  programme which at any rate for a while could
  bring Hitler, Petain, Montagu Norman, Pavelitch,
  William Randolph Hearst, Streicher, Buchman, Ezra
  Pound, Juan March, Cocteau, Thyssen, Father
  Coughlin, the Mufti of Jerusalem, Arnold Lunn,
  Antonescu, Spengler, Beverley Nichols, Lady
  Houston, and Marinetti all into the same boat!
  But the clue is really very simple. They are all
  people with something to lose, or people who long
  for a hierarchical society and dread the prospect
  of a world of free and equal human beings. Behind
  all the ballyhoo that is talked about ‘godless’
  Russia and the ‘materialism’ of the working class
  lies the simple intention of those with money or
  privileges to cling to them."




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