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You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.

Adam Hochschild

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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
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I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don’t have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.
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All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II.
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In the form of man-made global warming; one can’t be neutral at such a moment. It’s like claiming to be neutral if you’re living in Germany in 1933.
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If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
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I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.
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And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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