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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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Quote #3 on Political Struggle Quotes >> State and Civilization
“Civilization now rests upon force. It rests not only on guns and bombing planes, but on prisons, concentration camps, and the policeman's truncheon.... [But] the use of force makes real progress impossible. The good society is one in which human beings are equal and in which they cooperate with one another willingly and not because of fear or economic compulsion.”
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 9: Conclusion, Page 144.
"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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