That Groucho Marx was anarchic in the comedy domain is in no doubt, but whether he was in the political domain is another matter. The FBI tried to get him on being a Communist and it would seem that his leanings were definitely towards the left. But one of the Marx Brothers’ films “Duck Soup” leaves us in no doubt about the anti-war and anti-fascist nature of their possibly best movie. Today, I am not so much focusing on the Freedonia of that film, but another Freedonia partly inspired by a dialogue in the film where Groucho (as Rufus T. … Continue reading Hail, Hail, Freedonia!