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Like the knife which has had two new blades and three new handles , the upper
fringe of English society is still almost what it was in the mid - nineteenth century .
After 1832 the old landowning aristocracy steadily lost power , but instead of ...
Like the knife which has had two new blades and three new handles , the upper
fringe of English society is still almost what it was in the mid - nineteenth century .
After 1832 the old landowning aristocracy steadily lost power , but instead of ...
Page 31
They were simply parasites , less useful to society than his fleas are to a dog . By
1920 there were many people who were aware of all this . By 1930 millions were
aware of it . But the British ruling class obviously could not admit to themselves ...
They were simply parasites , less useful to society than his fleas are to a dog . By
1920 there were many people who were aware of all this . By 1930 millions were
aware of it . But the British ruling class obviously could not admit to themselves ...
Page 67
But since a classless , ownerless society is generally spoken of as “ Socialism " ,
we can give that name to the society towards which we are now moving . The war
and the revolution are inseparable . We cannot establish anything that a ...
But since a classless , ownerless society is generally spoken of as “ Socialism " ,
we can give that name to the society towards which we are now moving . The war
and the revolution are inseparable . We cannot establish anything that a ...
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| Title | The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius The Uniform Edition of George Orwell Works, George Orwell [His works. Uniform edition], George Orwell |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Publisher | Secker and Warburg, 1962 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 11 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 96 pages |
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