The Brian D. O'Leary Show - November 18, 2022 - Deconstructing the Myth of the Spanish Civil War and how it informs us today

The Brian D. O’Leary Show

November 17, 2022

 

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 earlier in the week, 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.

We will put a bookmark in our discussion of the Spanish War on Friday and introduce a new topic next week.

I hope to have more resources of what we talked about this week soon enough. We will publish a newsletter in the next few days on this subject, so if you are looking to delve into this subject deeper, remember to join us at my Substack page: https://briandoleary.substack.com/

Go to https://chroniclesmagazine.org/ for the articles. Great magazine and the only print magazine to which I currently subscribe.

 

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