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Page 68
It is enhanced by the fact that modern industrial methods tend always to demand
less muscular effort and therefore to leave people with more energy when their
day's work is done. Many workers in the light industries are less truly manual ...
It is enhanced by the fact that modern industrial methods tend always to demand
less muscular effort and therefore to leave people with more energy when their
day's work is done. Many workers in the light industries are less truly manual ...
Page 90
Of the membership of the Peace Pledge Union, less than fifteen per cent even
pay their annual subscriptions. None of these bodies of people, pacifists,
Communists or Blackshirts, could bring a large-scale stop-the-war movement into
being by ...
Of the membership of the Peace Pledge Union, less than fifteen per cent even
pay their annual subscriptions. None of these bodies of people, pacifists,
Communists or Blackshirts, could bring a large-scale stop-the-war movement into
being by ...
Page 121
And turning it round to our point of view, we see the vastness of the issue before
us, the all-importance of preserving our democracy more or less as we have
known it. But to preserve is always to extend. The choice before us is not so much
...
And turning it round to our point of view, we see the vastness of the issue before
us, the all-importance of preserving our democracy more or less as we have
known it. But to preserve is always to extend. The choice before us is not so much
...
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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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