So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDThings 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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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today’s wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium
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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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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 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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It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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