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They were preferable to the truly modern men , the Nazis and Fascists . But it had
long been obvious that they would be helpless against any serious attack from
the outside . They could not struggle against Nazism or Fascism , because they ...
They were preferable to the truly modern men , the Nazis and Fascists . But it had
long been obvious that they would be helpless against any serious attack from
the outside . They could not struggle against Nazism or Fascism , because they ...
Page 59
To understand Fascism they would have had to study the theory of Socialism ,
which would have forced them to realize that the economic system by which they
lived was unjust , inefficient and out - of - date . But it was exactly this fact that
they ...
To understand Fascism they would have had to study the theory of Socialism ,
which would have forced them to realize that the economic system by which they
lived was unjust , inefficient and out - of - date . But it was exactly this fact that
they ...
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... simply frivolous people who have never been shoved up against realities .
They show the same shallow misunderstanding of Fascism now , when they are
beginning to flirt with it , as a year or two ago , when they were squealing against
it .
... simply frivolous people who have never been shoved up against realities .
They show the same shallow misunderstanding of Fascism now , when they are
beginning to flirt with it , as a year or two ago , when they were squealing against
it .
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User Review - the.ken.petersen - LibraryThingIt seems harsh to criticise George Orwell's optimism when he implies that socialism has become inevitable: he was writing in 1941, I thought so in 1980. Sadly, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and ... Read full review
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius A Penguin book : Polit. science Volume 6327 of Penguin Books Penguin twentieth-century classics |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Editor | Bernard R. Crick |
| Contributor | Bernard R. Crick |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2010 |
| ISBN | 0140063277, 9780140063271 |
| Length | 123 pages |
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