The sad, sad story of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade...that group of Americans, many Jewish, who volunteered to go to Spain in 1937 to fight for the Republic and against the fascists, for the people, against the oligarchs, for freedom, liberty and the dignity of man, against tyranny and the rule of and for the few.
Well, they lost. They were slaughtered in large numbers, Franco reigned for forty years. More poignantly the fascists never gave up their mission to dominate the "people" and today have almost complete hegemony.
The notion of people laying their lives on the line for a proletarian ideal is so foreign to today's sensibilities it belongs to the time of the gavotte or even hand-hewn stone tools. Where are the heroes of today? Where is the belief in the betterment of mankind? Gone to flowers everyone...
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