Orwell and Hemingway are two of my favorite people in literary history and they were both highly impacted by what they saw in Spain. The Anarchist feminists were pretty fucking badass as well. Lucia Saornil in particular.
It's why I have such a fascination with going to Rojava, Anarchists, Socialists, and Communists fighting for control of their own destiny. A shame we blatantly allowed Turkish slaughter of the Kurds once again, but what we've recently found out about correspondence between Erdogan and Trump, it makes more sense. More likely after Corona finally gets under control, I will head to the Zapatista controlled territory in Chiapas. They just extended their zone with the blessing of the President of Mexico and Subcomandante Marcos and I've always wanted to attend St Patricks Day festivities in Mexico City and learn more about the San Patricios, the Irish who fought against American imperialism and sided with Mexico. Legendary in combat too and when the US Army tortured Comandante John Riley in front of his men with nooses wrapped around their necks they cried words of encouragement to their leader and in return when they hung he cried out to them as well.
The US Army was particularly cruel in their torture and execution of Irish prisoners. Interesting bit of history I've always wanted to explore more.
Well, what are your opinions about that work in particular?