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... 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 quietistic : the reality ...
... 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 quietistic : the reality ...
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... 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 , at the centre of a vast empire and a world - wide financial network ...
... 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 , at the centre of a vast empire and a world - wide financial network ...
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... wrong thing . They are not wicked , or not altogether wicked ; they are merely unteachable . Only when their money and power are gone will the younger among them begin to grasp what century they are living in . V The stagnation of the ...
... wrong thing . They are not wicked , or not altogether wicked ; they are merely unteachable . Only when their money and power are gone will the younger among them begin to grasp what century they are living in . V The stagnation of the ...
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