Word: fascisms
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...sloppy and convoluted, and parts of them often fail entirely, but that's only because of the enormous chances Pynchon takes. In Pynchon's books something huge is always at stake: the arms race begun in World War II, the scar of our country dividing North and South, the fascism of the post office. Stick to what you know is good advice for a writing seminar, but it will never get you into the ring with Homer...
...recent years, they remain an overpopulated, underdeveloped nation with a huge but underequipped military that would be chewed to bits by our armed forces should a confrontation ever arise. And on the world stage, an oppressive state making the transition from Maoist Marxism to an Asian version of fascism should hardly be able to muster the diplomatic clout wielded by the American republic...
During World War II, the veterans of the Spanish war enthusiastically enlisted to fight in the American army against Hitler and the Axis. Still mourning the Spanish Republic's defeat, they yearned for democracy's victory over fascism, for the chance to participate in the triumph of good over evil. An unwritten policy of the U.S. Army barred the Lincoln vets from the front lines; like blacks during the war, the Brigaders, despite their combat experience, were relegated to demeaning tasks far from battlefields. In the 1950s, communist witch-hunters imprisoned and fined veterans of the Brigade because of their...
...aside from these facts, the Lincoln Brigade did not fight for a communist revolution. It combated fascism in Spain to preserve a legally elected democracy "of the people, by the people, for the people," as its namesake had proclaimed at Gettysburg. Many of them were blacks weary of lynchings in the South and day-to-day mistreatment by whites. Others were Jews who feared for their fellow Jews in Hitler's Germany. They fought fascism in Spain to strike back at the American fascist elements of racism, police violence against organized workers and inequality of opportunity for Jews, blacks...
Before the hearing, Cohen had told me, "This is the last battle of the Spanish Civil War, and I think Franco will win again." His prediction was correct; the committee voted unanimously against the plaque. This time fascism won on American soil...