“Are you a communist?”
“No I am an anti-fascist”
“For a long time?”
“Since I have understood fascism."-- Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Hemingway was in fact a communist at that time. See Koch, Stephen. *The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of José Robles*. New York: Counterpoint, 2005.
Communist ideals were influential in the late 1930s; the Soviet Union was propagandized as the hope of the world and many intellectuals were persuaded by it, despite the Holodomor and the purges. There is even a science fiction connection; one reason the sf Campbell published was anathematized by literary intellectuals of the period was its rejection of communism.
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