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If we can survive this war , the defeat in Flanders will turn out to have been one of the great turningpoints in English history . In that spectacular disaster the working class , the middle class and even a section of the business ...
If we can survive this war , the defeat in Flanders will turn out to have been one of the great turningpoints in English history . In that spectacular disaster the working class , the middle class and even a section of the business ...
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They might almost equally well say that if we fight against Negroes we shall turn black . To we should have to have the history of Germany behind us . Nations do not escape from their past merely by making a revolution .
They might almost equally well say that if we fight against Negroes we shall turn black . To we should have to have the history of Germany behind us . Nations do not escape from their past merely by making a revolution .
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And turning it round to our own point of view , we see the vastness of the issue before us , the all - importance of ... It could happen that England should introduce the beginnings of Socialism , turn this war into a revolutionary war ...
And turning it round to our own point of view , we see the vastness of the issue before us , the all - importance of ... It could happen that England should introduce the beginnings of Socialism , turn this war into a revolutionary war ...
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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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