There's a really ridiculous false equivalency that plays out in the history section of the book that assumes that every socialist, communist, or anti-fascist in the 1930s was a Stalinist, and therefore just as bad as the Nazis. It starts in the section about the Spanish Civil War (p. 268), which the book posits as a proxy war between Stalin and Hitler. This ignores the fact that some of the most intense fighting by the Republicans was done by the FAI and POUM, two anti-fascist organisations (the former anarchist, the latter communist) which were intensely anti-Stalinist. Making this tragic conflict out to be a mere preface to WW2 diminishes the huge sacrifices everyday Spaniards and workers from around the world made to fight fascism. Further, The Crawling Order (p.