Word: undemocratic
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...Hicks was probably thinking of just such a passage when he gibed at "a vague hope in some utopian revolution," and it is hard to disagree with him, much as one might like to. Maybe it makes me an undemocrat too--but as I see it the moral of the Spanish struggle is not that the democratic forces, the people, turned their bare breasts against the fascist tanks, but that the people lost. Dutch students may riot, yet Hitler crushes Holland with barely a contemptuous glance in their direction. You do not win this war by snowballing brown-shirted legions...
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