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... argues that ' the gentleness of English civilization is perhaps its most marked characteristic It is a land where the bus conductors are good - tempered and the police carry no revolvers . ' But it is also ' the most class - ridden ...
... argues that ' the gentleness of English civilization is perhaps its most marked characteristic It is a land where the bus conductors are good - tempered and the police carry no revolvers . ' But it is also ' the most class - ridden ...
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... argues that ' the war has demonstrated that private capitalism ... does not work ' , and that ' it is only by revolution that the English people can be set free ' . But revolution to Orwell is not a coup d'état , it is a mass movement ...
... argues that ' the war has demonstrated that private capitalism ... does not work ' , and that ' it is only by revolution that the English people can be set free ' . But revolution to Orwell is not a coup d'état , it is a mass movement ...
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... argue the merits of these two traditions , but simply to indicate in which of them Orwell stood . No ' proto - Social Democrat ' he . The third important point is embedded in this same passage . He argues that the English revolution ...
... argue the merits of these two traditions , but simply to indicate in which of them Orwell stood . No ' proto - Social Democrat ' he . The third important point is embedded in this same passage . He argues that the English revolution ...
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