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This belief was eccentric, but he wrote notes for lectures on guerrilla warfare and
on the need for popular political aims to influence military tactics and strategy
which were far in advance of most military thinking of the day. The
Commissioning ...
This belief was eccentric, but he wrote notes for lectures on guerrilla warfare and
on the need for popular political aims to influence military tactics and strategy
which were far in advance of most military thinking of the day. The
Commissioning ...
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Socialism aims, ultimately, at a world-state of free and equal human beings. It
takes the equality of human rights for granted. Nazism assumes just the opposite.
The driving force behind the Nazi movement is the belief in human inequality, the
...
Socialism aims, ultimately, at a world-state of free and equal human beings. It
takes the equality of human rights for granted. Nazism assumes just the opposite.
The driving force behind the Nazi movement is the belief in human inequality, the
...
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... between the young and the old, between the living and the dead. But it is very
necessary that the discontent which undoubtedly exists should take a purposeful
and not merely obstructive form. It is time for the people to define their war aims.
... between the young and the old, between the living and the dead. But it is very
necessary that the discontent which undoubtedly exists should take a purposeful
and not merely obstructive form. It is time for the people to define their war aims.
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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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