Watched this movie-Guernica. Pretty bad. The town of 1500 was bombed. Had to be Franco. Didn’t he have the planes?
Orwell’s book. Homage to Catalonia was great. Just didn’t know who the bad guys were. Made no sense for him to get involved-Englishman. Under-equipped, under trained and they hung out in the mud and stench.
Orwell advocated the anti-democratic system that all socialism is, but continually bemoaned the anti-democratic consequences of victory. And remember, Hillary said that the point of "1984" was, everyone should always obey the gov't.
A lifelong friend spent his college years as a commie wannabee, but I think his turning point came from two things -- one of his doinks of the time (she was tiresome to listen to, but easy), followed by his conversation at a Clash concert with an RCP (Revolutionary Communist Party) dip**** who was in his full 'look at me' regalia. After some period of time, my friend asked the clown a couple of questions and the mask came off as the brainwashing program responded.
During the 1976 POTUS campaign, a future family member had a poster for USLP Lyndon LaRouche up in his on-campus office. I'm pretty sure LL needs no introduction. Wikipedia scrubbed him from its page on the 1976 campaign, and its page on LL himself claims he went from far-left to far-right.
I've always thought that LaRouche may have / should have been the one used in that Apple "1984" commercial.
My future family member expressed concern about how LaRouche was getting money to run such a vast campaign. LaRouche blamed a lot of things on the CIA, a phenomenon perhaps best termed 'implausible undeniability'. Other practitioners claim that LaRouche himself was funded by the CIA.
The USLP/LaRouche on-campus 1976 campaign posters (unlike the big heroic-looking one in my FFM's office) had the message, "a vote for Carter will trigger thermonuclear war", and his infomercial in one of his later campaigns waxed rhapsodic about small-s socialism and how (apparently) the other kind (the only kind that actually exists) was a co-opting of what he regarded as the real kind. Yeah, that's a far-right position.
It was the German Condor Legion (Luftwaffe) which bombed Guernica. The Nazis were there to help Franco against the Commies. Franco knew they were going to bomb Guernica which was in the hands of the Commies at the time - but it was the Germans who carried it out. It was not bad at all by WWII standards. It was just shocking to everybody because it was the first time an air force really bombed a city.