We are in the second week of our daily shows. This week we’ve been tackling the monster topic of the Spanish Civil War.
Continuing the discussion from yesterday’s show, we reference an article in this month’s Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.
The Myth of the Spanish Civil War. One of the last great leftist myths of the 20th century is that the Spanish Civil War was a struggle of republican democracy against nationalist fascism. In reality, it was a violent mass-collectivist revolution put down by Spanish moderates and conservatives. By Stanley G. Payne
We’ve been told that the major myth surrounding the Spanish Civil War…that it was a struggle against “fascism.” Hint: that’s not at all what the war was about.
Today we talk more about fascism and how it may be defined. We reference books by Paul E. Gottfried (Fascism: The Career of a Concept) and Stanley G. Payne (Fascism: Comparison and Definition & Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II).
Professor Payne wrote the article we’ve been talking about all week. Professor Gottfried is the editor-in-chief of Chronicles.
We will put a bookmark in our discussion of the Spanish War on Friday and introduce a new topic next week.
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The Brian D. O'Leary Show - 11/17/22