The Brian D. O’Leary Show

November 16, 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.

Longer show than normal today, clocking in right around 40 minutes. We like to have these daily shows a bit shorter…at 20-30 minutes, but we went overtime today. Please accept the apologies of the staff and enjoy the show in the meantime.

Continuing the discussion from yesterday’s show, we reference an article in this month’s Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.

• 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 dive into what fascism is and what it is not. We also delve into the topic of “antifascism” so-called.

The rest of this week will be devoted to analysis of this article and will get into some parallels we see between the lead-up to the Spanish War and our culture today. It is analogous, but certainly not one-for-one.

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

 

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