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power of Europeans , but that was no excuse for imposing one ' s own culture on
them , in fact treating them like dirt . As late as 1935 , his novel Keep the
Aspidistra Flying shows no badly the ' money god treats the artist and how
commercial ...
power of Europeans , but that was no excuse for imposing one ' s own culture on
them , in fact treating them like dirt . As late as 1935 , his novel Keep the
Aspidistra Flying shows no badly the ' money god treats the artist and how
commercial ...
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But it was exactly this fact that they had trained themselves never to face . They
dealt with Fascism as the cavalry generals of 1914 dealt with the machine - guns
– by ignoring it . After years of aggression and massacres , they had grasped only
...
But it was exactly this fact that they had trained themselves never to face . They
dealt with Fascism as the cavalry generals of 1914 dealt with the machine - guns
– by ignoring it . After years of aggression and massacres , they had grasped only
...
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Even the elementary fact that Fascism must not offend national sentiment had
escaped him . His entire movement was imitated slavishly from abroad , the
uniform and the party programme from Italy and the salute from Germany , with
the Jew ...
Even the elementary fact that Fascism must not offend national sentiment had
escaped him . His entire movement was imitated slavishly from abroad , the
uniform and the party programme from Italy and the salute from Germany , with
the Jew ...
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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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