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Nor did any strong native Fascist movement grow up . Material conditions were not bad enough , and no leader who could be taken seriously was forthcoming . One would have had to look a long time to find a man more barren of ideas than ...
Nor did any strong native Fascist movement grow up . Material conditions were not bad enough , and no leader who could be taken seriously was forthcoming . One would have had to look a long time to find a man more barren of ideas than ...
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His entire movement was imitated slavishly from abroad , the uniform and the party programme from Italy and the salute from Germany , with the Jew - baiting tacked on as an afterthought , Mosley having actually started his movement with ...
His entire movement was imitated slavishly from abroad , the uniform and the party programme from Italy and the salute from Germany , with the Jew - baiting tacked on as an afterthought , Mosley having actually started his movement with ...
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months , if we are still unconquered , we shall see the rise of something that has never existed before , a specifically English Socialist movement . Hitherto there has been only the Labour Party , which was the creation of the working ...
months , if we are still unconquered , we shall see the rise of something that has never existed before , a specifically English Socialist movement . Hitherto there has been only the Labour Party , which was the creation of the working ...
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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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