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The choice before us is not so much between victory and defeat as between revolution and apathy . ... happen that England should introduce the beginnings of Socialism , turn this war into a revolutionary war , and still be defeated .
The choice before us is not so much between victory and defeat as between revolution and apathy . ... happen that England should introduce the beginnings of Socialism , turn this war into a revolutionary war , and still be defeated .
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Hitler said once that to accept defeat destroys the soul of a nation . This sounds like a piece of claptrap , but it is strictly true . The defeat of 1870 did not lessen the worldinfluence of France . The Third Republic had more ...
Hitler said once that to accept defeat destroys the soul of a nation . This sounds like a piece of claptrap , but it is strictly true . The defeat of 1870 did not lessen the worldinfluence of France . The Third Republic had more ...
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Hitler said once that to accept defeat destroys the soul of a nation . This sounds like a piece of claptrap , but it is strictly true . The defeat of 1870 did not lessen the worldinfluence of France . The Third Republic had more ...
Hitler said once that to accept defeat destroys the soul of a nation . This sounds like a piece of claptrap , but it is strictly true . The defeat of 1870 did not lessen the worldinfluence of France . The Third Republic had more ...
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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 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 25 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 126 pages |
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