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The following is a recreation of a post by Glenn W. Smith on the blog FiredogLake.com.

From For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

In the mountains north of Madrid, the protagonist of Ernest Hemingway's novel, Robert Jordan, is talking about America with a group of anti-fascist fighters of the Spanish Civil War.

"Do you have no big proprietors?" Andrés asked.

"Many." [Jordan answered.]

"Then there must be abuses."

"Certainly. There are many abuses."

"But you will do away with them?"

"We try to more and more. But there are many abuses still."

"But there are not great estates that must be broken up?"

"Yes. But there are those who believe that taxes will break them up."

"How?"

Robert Jordan, wiping out the stew bowl with bread, explained how the income tax and inheritance tax worked. "But the big estates remain. Also there are taxes on the land," he said.

"But surely the big proprietors and the rich will make a revolution against such taxes. Such taxes appear to me to be revolutionary. They will revolt against the government when they see that they are threatened, exactly as the fascists have done here," Primitivo said.

"It is possible."

"Then you will have to fight in your country as we fight here."

"Yes, we will have to fight".

The novel was written in 1937 & published in 1940.

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