[[b]This post refers to the [u]European[/u] left. It is unrelated to anything in America.[/b]]
In 1936, when General Franco's Catholic butchers terrorized Spain to establish a fascist tyranny, left-wing people from all over the world (including America, the Lincoln Battalion!) went to Spain, to fight against those brutes, and to help defeating fascism.
"Civilized" countries such as France and the UK did not provide those fighters with heavy armament, in order not to upset Hitler. The Spanish republic lost the war, as a result, but at least those left-wing men and women fought before they were defeated. They stood up against evil.
Today's leftists stink like rotten meat. They see those brave Ukrainians as NATO's useful idiots, they try everything in their might to prevent their governments from sending appropriate armament to Ukraine ("hey it's because we are so peaceful!", "Hey it's because Vladi has nukes!").
Today's left just licks the blood off of Putin's boots. [b]Putin's leftist poodles: You are disgusting. I despise you.[/b]
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[/center] Bastille Storming – when the left was still willing to fight the tyrants. Foreground: Grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grandmother of helenS.
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I've been living in Barcelona for almost three years now. I'm currently re-reading Orwell's "Homage to Catalunya", he was one of the Brits that came here to fight against Franco and his fascists.
To be honest, the Left here in Spain were then, and are still now, their own worst enemies. They are fractious, disorganised and often act like petulant children. Reading Orwell and discussing the Spanish Civil War with some of the older Catalans that I've met, it seems pretty clear to me that the Spanish Left had as much to do with their defeat as did the lack of material support from their neighbours.
@room101 Thank you. 🌷 It's not been my intention to defend the state of the left in 1930s Spain. My point was that in the 30s the left was willing to fight against tyrants such as Franco or Mussolini. Now they lick Putin's boots. To me that's such a bankruptcy (disguised as pacifism) that I encounter difficulties seeing myself as a part of the left.
@helenS I understand and I'm sorry if my reply made it sound like I didn't get your intention. All I'm saying is that, even in the 1930's, the left (I've always been a Labour voter btw and grew up in a heavily socialist and communist family) were not always the fighters against fascism that they may appear to be.
