The Brian D. O'Leary Show - November 17, 2022 - Understanding fascism

<p>The Brian D. O’Leary Show</p> <p><em>November 17, 2022</em></p> <p>We are in the second week of our daily shows. This week we’ve been tackling the monster topic of the Spanish Civil War.</p> <p>Continuing the discussion from yesterday’s show, we reference an article in this month’s <a href="https://chroniclesmagazine.org/">Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.</a></p> <ul> <li>The Myth of the Spanish Civil War. <em>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.</em> By Stanley G. Payne</li> <li>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.</li> </ul> <p>Today we talk more about fascism and how it may be defined. We reference books by Paul E. Gottfried (Fascism: <em>The Career of a Concept</em>) and Stanley G. Payne (Fascism: <em>Comparison and Definition</em> & Franco and Hitler: <em>Spain, Germany, and World War II</em>).</p> <p>Professor Payne wrote the article we’ve been talking about all week. Professor Gottfried is the editor-in-chief of <a href="https://chroniclesmagazine.org/">Chronicles</a>.</p> <p>We will put a bookmark in our discussion of the Spanish War on Friday and introduce a new topic next week.</p> <p>Go to <a href="https://chroniclesmagazine.org/">https://chroniclesmagazine.org/</a> for the articles. Great magazine and the only print magazine to which I currently subscribe.</p> <p>Follow us on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianDOLeary">@BrianDOLeary</a> . That’s also where we will notify you when and/or if we go live each day.</p> <p>Go to <a href="https://briandoleary.com/">BrianDOLeary.com</a> for more information.</p>