By: Phil Barker
“Good thing he only used words, not IEDs.” wrote itwasnotme. Well, the day before writing this Eric had been to the LDV group conference, and through involvement in that he was trained (and offered...
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While I’m not taking offense at the remark that “…Eric was no liberal and was willing to fight for what he believed in”, I dispute your characterization of liberals as people unwilling to fight for...
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itwasnotme: fair point. No offense was intended and I apologize if I gave any to anyone. (Aside: I had in mind when writing that comment two things: first something I read to the effect that out of...
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Phil Ochs was another purist, and of course in the US he was considered a total commie not to be listened to. His ” Love me I’m a Liberal” was exasperating to us liberals needless to say, but still we...
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I suppose if no ‘commies’ were to be listened to it would mean closing our ears to old Satre, young Camus, Gorky, and Picasso among many others. On the other hand I can’t think of a single fascist...
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Max: Ezra Pound? The wikipedia article on him has an interesting quote from Orwell about him, to the effect of ‘yes he was a Fascist, out of hatred of Jews and Britain, but that’s no reason for him not...
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Yes, you’re right of course. And didn’t Orwell call W.B. Yeats a fascist at some point? At times he did seem to use the word a little wildly. There’s sometimes said to be a link between genius and...
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“War is simply a reversal of civilised life, its motto is “Evil be thou my good”, and so much of the good of modern life is actually evil that it is questionable whether on balance war does harm.” It...
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[...] 22nd, 1940, and France has just surrendered. Earlier in the month, during the Dunkirk evacuation, he was in a rather dark mood, considering he was a veteran of the Spanish Civil War himself:...
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