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Page 49
He got a quarter of a million men in the first twenty-four hours, and another million
in the subsequent month. One has only to compare these figures with, for
instance, the number of conscientious objectors to see how vast is the strength of
...
He got a quarter of a million men in the first twenty-four hours, and another million
in the subsequent month. One has only to compare these figures with, for
instance, the number of conscientious objectors to see how vast is the strength of
...
Page 56
Only half a million people, the people in the country houses, definitely benefited
from the existing system. Moreover, the tendency of small businesses to merge
together into large ones robbed more and more of the moneyed class of their ...
Only half a million people, the people in the country houses, definitely benefited
from the existing system. Moreover, the tendency of small businesses to merge
together into large ones robbed more and more of the moneyed class of their ...
Page 105
The resistance will come from the big capitalists, the bankers, the landlords and
the idle rich, roughly speaking the class with over £2,000 a year - and even if one
counts in all their dependants there are not more than half a million of these ...
The resistance will come from the big capitalists, the bankers, the landlords and
the idle rich, roughly speaking the class with over £2,000 a year - and even if one
counts in all their dependants there are not more than half a million of these ...
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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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