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Page 18
England , he said , was ' a family with the wrong members in control . Some
socialist critics of Orwell see this metaphor as selling the pass : it hardly matters
who is in control , it is the assumption of there being a family at all that is wrong
and ...
England , he said , was ' a family with the wrong members in control . Some
socialist critics of Orwell see this metaphor as selling the pass : it hardly matters
who is in control , it is the assumption of there being a family at all that is wrong
and ...
Page 56
What was it that at every decisive moment made every British statesman do the
wrong thing with so unerring an instinct ? The underlying fact was that the whole
position of the moneyed class had long ceased to be justifiable . There they sat ...
What was it that at every decisive moment made every British statesman do the
wrong thing with so unerring an instinct ? The underlying fact was that the whole
position of the moneyed class had long ceased to be justifiable . There they sat ...
Page 60
The British ruling class were not altogether wrong in thinking that Fascism was on
their side . It is a fact that any rich man , unless he is a Jew , has less to fear from
Fascism than from either Communism or democratic Socialism . One ought ...
The British ruling class were not altogether wrong in thinking that Fascism was on
their side . It is a fact that any rich man , unless he is a Jew , has less to fear from
Fascism than from either Communism or democratic Socialism . One ought ...
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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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