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... means of production " Crudely the State , representing the whole nation , owns everything , and everyone is a State employee . This does not mean that people are stripped of private possessions such as clothes and furniture , but it does ...
... means of production " Crudely the State , representing the whole nation , owns everything , and everyone is a State employee . This does not mean that people are stripped of private possessions such as clothes and furniture , but it does ...
Page 72
... mean that they will deliberately sell out ; but it does mean that at every decisive moment they are likely to falter , pull their punches , do the wrong thing . Until the Churchill government called some sort of halt to the process ...
... mean that they will deliberately sell out ; but it does mean that at every decisive moment they are likely to falter , pull their punches , do the wrong thing . Until the Churchill government called some sort of halt to the process ...
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... means a fundamental shift of power . Whether it happens with or without bloodshed is largely an accident of time and place . Nor does it mean the dictatorship of a single class . The people in England who grasp what changes are needed ...
... means a fundamental shift of power . Whether it happens with or without bloodshed is largely an accident of time and place . Nor does it mean the dictatorship of a single class . The people in England who grasp what changes are needed ...
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army Blimps bombing planes Britain British ruling class BURMESE DAYS capitalism capitalist Chamberlain civilization coloured common Communists conquered culture CYRIL CONNOLLY danger defeat democracy destroyed disaster enemy England English Genius English Socialist Europe European exist face fact Fascism feel fighting foreign GEORGE ORWELL German gloomy Sundays grasp happen Hitler HOMAGE TO CATALONIA human hypocrisy idea imperial incomes India industry intellectuals intelligentsia Italians kind Labour Party left-wing less living London Martin Secker mean ment MICHAEL FOOT middle class military million modern monied class morale nation Nazi never numbers officers outlook ownership pacifist past patriotism peace political privilege pro-Fascist programme public schools revolution revolutionary rich Rolls-Royce car Russians SEARCHLIGHT BOOK SEBASTIAN HAFFNER simply slums snigger Socialist movement society Spanish Spanish civil war surrender T. C. WORSLEY tion totalitarianism treacherous true turn UNICORN Socialism whole workers