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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
much ...
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
much ...
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-of- date gospel, and never ...
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-of- date gospel, and never ...
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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| Title | The lion and the unicorn: socialism and the English genius Penguin twentieth-century classics Penguin Books |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2010 |
| Length | 123 pages |
| Subjects | › › England Great Britain Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism Social structure Socialism Socialism in Great Britain |
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