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The author claims Orwell had plenty of evidence the conflict wasn't winnable, which means it's a waste of life to fight it. Also that collectivism would have pr
by goatlover 5y ago
The author claims Orwell had plenty of evidence the conflict wasn't winnable, which means it's a waste of life to fight it. Also that collectivism would have produced a worse tyranny, and potentially endangered representative democracy in Western Europe, given Spain would have had close ties to Moscow.
The thesis of the article is that Orwell is admired so much by all political sides because of his contradictions. He was against fascism, but he also recognized totalitarian tendencies in communism. Thus the line about some animals being more equal than others in Animal Farm.
- publicola1990 5y agoBut loss would have not been good for representative democracy either in Spain. People speak now as if Western Europe is some bastion of Democracy, Spain and Portugal were not within living memory.
- gelert 5y agoInstead Spain became a fascist power with close ties to Berlin. Hardly less of a threat to representative democracy. Spain was a dictatorship until 1970. Collectivism might have also produced tyranny but it's not a good thing that a fascist won.