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what age they are living in or what enemy they are fighting . Nothing was more desolating at the beginning of this war than the way in which the whole of the older generation conspired to pretend that it was the war of 1914-18 over ...
what age they are living in or what enemy they are fighting . Nothing was more desolating at the beginning of this war than the way in which the whole of the older generation conspired to pretend that it was the war of 1914-18 over ...
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time - look abroad for your inspiration , get someone else to do your fighting for you . Underneath it lies the frightful inferiority complex of the English intellectual , the belief that the English are no longer a martial race ...
time - look abroad for your inspiration , get someone else to do your fighting for you . Underneath it lies the frightful inferiority complex of the English intellectual , the belief that the English are no longer a martial race ...
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If the thing we fighting for is altogether destroyed , it will have been destroyed partly by our own act . It could happen that England should introduce the beginnings of Socialism , turn this war into a revolutionary war , and still be ...
If the thing we fighting for is altogether destroyed , it will have been destroyed partly by our own act . It could happen that England should introduce the beginnings of Socialism , turn this war into a revolutionary war , and still be ...
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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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| Title | The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius Issue 1 of Searchlight books |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Publisher | Secker & Warburg, 1941 |
| Length | 126 pages |
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