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Socialism and the English Genius George Orwell. ignores the existence of the British Empire . It looks like sheer hypocrisy . After all , the English have absorbed a quarter of the earth and held on to it by means of a huge navy . How ...
Socialism and the English Genius George Orwell. ignores the existence of the British Empire . It looks like sheer hypocrisy . After all , the English have absorbed a quarter of the earth and held on to it by means of a huge navy . How ...
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... empire and a world - wide financial network , drawing interest and profits and spending them - on what ? It was fair to say that life within the British Empire was in many ways better than life outside it . Still , the Empire was un ...
... empire and a world - wide financial network , drawing interest and profits and spending them - on what ? It was fair to say that life within the British Empire was in many ways better than life outside it . Still , the Empire was un ...
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Socialism and the English Genius George Orwell. directly interested in the prosperity of British capitalism . In particular it was interested in the maintenance of the British Empire , for the wealth of England was drawn largely from ...
Socialism and the English Genius George Orwell. directly interested in the prosperity of British capitalism . In particular it was interested in the maintenance of the British Empire , for the wealth of England was drawn largely from ...
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