Y la gente, como una alfombra extendida sobre las calles, lo llenaba todo, hasta el último rincón. Las empresas habían dado permiso a sus empleados para ir a recibir al 《salvador》de la patria. “Aquel gentío, aquellos gritos, 《¡Franco! ¡Franco! ¡Franco!》, aquellas banderas españolas.

The ordinary class-division of society had disappeared to an extent that is almost unthinkable in the money - tainted air of England there was no one there except the peasants and ourselves, and no one owned anyone else as his master.” Many of the normal motives of civilized life - snobbishness, money-grubbing, fear of the boss, etc. There is a sense in which it would be true to say that one was experiencing a foretaste of Socialism, by which I mean that the prevailing mental atmosphere was that of Socialism. In theory it was perfect equality, and even in practice it was not far from it.

Up here in Aragon one was among tens of thousands of people, mainly though not entirely of working-class origin, all living at the same level and mingling on terms of equality. “I had dropped more or less by chance into the only community of any size in Western Europe where political consciousness and disbelief in capitalism were more normal than their opposites. The idea of self-emancipation and advancement, with Europe under the jackboot of fascism, would be Quixotic to the point of mirthless lunacy.” Man Created God, even if God Created Man it all exists in the hubris and apotheosis of the narcissistic soul, and alas, all too many of the human herd are willing to follow the beastly trait of leadership. His church on Earth has produced some of the most vigorous and violent contribution to the European fascist cause. Would He not approve of Herr Hitler and the brutal, tribalistic crusade against Hebrews and non-Christian ‘untermensch?’ The Old Testament depicts a God capricious and cruel blood sacrifice, vengeance, genocide death and destruction et al. The Semitic texts from Bronze Age Palestine of which Christianity is comprised still fit uncomfortably well with contemporary life. “Men speak of God’s love for man… but if providence does not come in this hour, where is He then? My conclusion is simple.

Map of spanish civil war