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Re:Harper Lee has died by clock_tower on Friday February 19, 2016 @07:49PM (#11137993)
Against which party? I don't trust Orwell's judgement -- fighting for POUM, and making the argument above, weren't the only errors he made -- and I don't think Gladwell should have trusted it either.

(But then, Gladwell wrote a book called _The World is Flat_ in 2000, and it was about free trade, not fundamentalism; he's not exactly someone who I look to as a paragon of good judgement either.)

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Re:Harper Lee has died by hartpuff on Saturday February 20, 2016 @08:53AM (#11140024)
POUM was anti-Fascist and anti-Stalinist. If you think it was an error to support such a party in Spain at that time, I'm afraid it says more about your judgement than Orwell's.
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Re:Harper Lee has died by clock_tower on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @09:00PM (#11171864)
Anti-Stalinist isn't anti-Communist. (Sorry for the extremely late post, though.)
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Re:Harper Lee has died by griffinmahon on Saturday February 20, 2016 @01:55PM (#11141338)
In addition to your misreading of Homage to Catalonia, you also misattributed -- the author you're looking for is Thomas Friedman.
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