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.)
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“The policeman who arrests the "red" does not understand the theories the "red" is preaching; if he did his own position as bodyguard of the moneyed class might seem less pleasant to him.”
Source: "The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius," by George Orwell, 1941. Part I, Section IV.
Socialism and the English Genius
: "The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius," by George Orwell, 1941.
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