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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 are 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 ...
If the thing we are 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 ...
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between going down fighting , and surrendering without a fight , is by no means a question of “ honour ” and schoolboy heroics . Hitler said once that to accept defeat destroys the soul of a nation . This sounds like a piece of claptrap ...
between going down fighting , and surrendering without a fight , is by no means a question of “ honour ” and schoolboy heroics . Hitler said once that to accept defeat destroys the soul of a nation . This sounds like a piece of claptrap ...
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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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