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But it was exactly this fact that they had trained themselves never to face . They dealt with Fascism as the cavalry generals of 1914 dealt with the machine gun - by ignoring it . After years of aggression and massacres , they had ...
But it was exactly this fact that they had trained themselves never to face . They dealt with Fascism as the cavalry generals of 1914 dealt with the machine gun - by ignoring it . After years of aggression and massacres , they had ...
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It is a fact that any rich man , , unless he is a Jew , has less to fear from Fascism than from either Communism or democratic Socialism . One ought never to forget this , for nearly the whole of German and Italian propaganda is ...
It is a fact that any rich man , , unless he is a Jew , has less to fear from Fascism than from either Communism or democratic Socialism . One ought never to forget this , for nearly the whole of German and Italian propaganda is ...
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They continued year after year to preach this out - of - date gospel , and never drew any inference from the fact that it got them no followers . Nor did any strong native Fascist movement grow up . Material conditions were not bad ...
They continued year after year to preach this out - of - date gospel , and never drew any inference from the fact that it got them no followers . Nor did any strong native Fascist movement grow up . Material conditions were not bad ...
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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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