"Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors." - Hemmingway

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Hemingway was a left extremist who fought on the side of the socialist, Communists and anarchists; against the fascists.
The FBI spied on him for decades.

Why intellectuals like Hemingway got involved in the Spanish Civil War

The Republicans had elected a Socialist president, and were fighting against a military coup.

The recent Catalonian Independence movement is part of the legacy of the Spanish civil war, and it's being suppressed again by "elected" fascists.

A significant percentage of the Catalan public are anarchists, but you'll never hear that reported anywhere.

I think Hemingway understood something that most of us have been brainwashed into forgetting.