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or a tradesman who doesn't want to
be part of your collective? Okay?

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These people are anti-fascists.
What do you do then?

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It sounds really great on paper,
but in reality it won't work...

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because
it's going to pit the peasants

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against the anti-fascists. Okay?
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You're fighting now and it's going
to endanger your food production.

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Lawrence, I think
that private ownership of land

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must be totally given up,
forgotten, cancelled...

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because it maintains people
in a capitalist mentality.

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I agree. Okay.
I agree with, I mean,

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I'm not here to argue for,
for private property.

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I know the definition of
private property.

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I know what it does.
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Okay, I'm not arguing that.
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This is not the time for
these textbook arguments

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on socialism or land reform.
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We have to defeat fascism,
that's the priority.

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Are you suspecting this man to,
to speak about the textbook of...

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socialism?
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No, I'm not!
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Well, I'm,
I'm agreeing with him. Okay?

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I'm agreeing with
the collectivisation, all right?

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But these people
cannot collectivise anything

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if they're dead. Okay?
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Well, this is, is your opinion.
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My opinion!
They asked for my opinion.

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No, but in my village, the people
didn't wait for the government

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to give them the land.
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They took it themselves.
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Nadie espero a que les dijesen
que tenian

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que hacer con la tierra,
la cogieron ellos mismos.

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I want you to think
beyond this village, okay

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at a much bigger picture.
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Okay. I have no doubt that
the Spanish people,

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on their own,
could have 'licked' Franco.

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But you're not fighting
just Franco,

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you now have Mussolini and Hitler
on your back.

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Okay. With the exception
of Russia and Mexico...

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the rest of the world has turned
its back on you. Okay?

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They refuse to
sell the Republic arms.


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