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Page 56
... small businesses to merge together into large ones robbed more and more of
the moneyed class of their function and turned them into mere owners , their work
being done for them by salaried managers and technicians . For long past there ...
... small businesses to merge together into large ones robbed more and more of
the moneyed class of their function and turned them into mere owners , their work
being done for them by salaried managers and technicians . For long past there ...
Page 112
When a Socialist movement native to England appears , the Marxists , like all
others with a vested interest in the past , will be its bitter enemies . Inevitably they
will denounce it as ' Fascism ' . Already it is customary among the more soft -
boiled ...
When a Socialist movement native to England appears , the Marxists , like all
others with a vested interest in the past , will be its bitter enemies . Inevitably they
will denounce it as ' Fascism ' . Already it is customary among the more soft -
boiled ...
Page 115
During the past twenty years the negative , fainéant outlook which has been
fashionable among English left - wingers , the sniggering of the intellectuals at
patriotism and physical courage , the persistent effort to chip away English
morale and ...
During the past twenty years the negative , fainéant outlook which has been
fashionable among English left - wingers , the sniggering of the intellectuals at
patriotism and physical courage , the persistent effort to chip away English
morale and ...
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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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