George Orwell (June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950) on Class Warfare and The State(published by RevoltSource) |
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English Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Critic, Supporter of Democratic Socialism, Opponent of Authoritarianism, and Proven Undercover Agent Reporting on the Left to the Police
: An English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism. Orwell produced literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). (From: Wikipedia.org.)
Quote #23 on Economic Struggle Quotes >> Class Warfare and The State
“When I see a flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not ask myself which side I am on.”
Source: "The Duty to Stand Aside: Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort," by Eric Laursen, 2018, AK Press. Chapter 3: A Public "Set-To", Page 42.
"The Duty to Stand Aside: Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort," by Eric Laursen, 2018, AK Press.
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