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Page 64
All through the critical years many left - wingers were chipping away at English
morale , trying to spread an outlook that was sometimes squashily pacifist ,
sometimes violently pro - Russian , but always anti - British . It is questionable
how ...
All through the critical years many left - wingers were chipping away at English
morale , trying to spread an outlook that was sometimes squashily pacifist ,
sometimes violently pro - Russian , but always anti - British . It is questionable
how ...
Page 98
They had not the Russian money and prestige behind them , and even more than
the Communists * they were tied to the nineteenth - century doctrine of the class
war . They continued year after year to preach this out - ofdate gospel , and ...
They had not the Russian money and prestige behind them , and even more than
the Communists * they were tied to the nineteenth - century doctrine of the class
war . They continued year after year to preach this out - ofdate gospel , and ...
Page 112
Hitherto there has been only the Labour Party , which was the creation of the
working class but did not aim at any fundamental change , and Marxism , which
was a German theory interpreted by Russians and unsuccessfully transplanted to
...
Hitherto there has been only the Labour Party , which was the creation of the
working class but did not aim at any fundamental change , and Marxism , which
was a German theory interpreted by Russians and unsuccessfully transplanted to
...
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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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