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... which will shock foreign observers and sometimes make them doubt whether
any revolution has happened ' . Why this must be so becomes a little more clear
in the last paragraph of the book : The heirs of Nelson and Cromwell are not in ...
... which will shock foreign observers and sometimes make them doubt whether
any revolution has happened ' . Why this must be so becomes a little more clear
in the last paragraph of the book : The heirs of Nelson and Cromwell are not in ...
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The totalitarian idea that there is no such thing as law , there is only power , has
never taken root . Even the intelligentsia have only accepted it in theory . An
illusion can become a half - truth , a mask can alter the expression of a face .
The totalitarian idea that there is no such thing as law , there is only power , has
never taken root . Even the intelligentsia have only accepted it in theory . An
illusion can become a half - truth , a mask can alter the expression of a face .
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Money , for internal purposes , ceases to be a mysterious all - powerful thing and
becomes a sort of coupon or ration ... However , it has become clear in the last
few years that ' common ownership of the means of production ' is not in itself a ...
Money , for internal purposes , ceases to be a mysterious all - powerful thing and
becomes a sort of coupon or ration ... However , it has become clear in the last
few years that ' common ownership of the means of production ' is not in itself a ...
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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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