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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.

Adam Hochschild

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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend.
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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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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
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