Titlebook: Orwell‘s Politics; John Newsinger Book 1999 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999 England.George Orwell.Grea

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Only Revolution Can Save England,apitalist imperialisms, in the course of which Britain would inevitably proceed down the path towards totalitarianism. His attitude was very much informed by his understanding of developments in Spain. There he had seen a revolution forcibly suppressed by the Communists and their allies and an autho

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The Destruction of the Soviet Myth,derived, as we have seen, largely from his personal experience of Communist practice in Spain, but it was subsequently reinforced by his continued concern with developments in the Soviet Union and with the activities of the Communist Party and its fellow-travellers in Britain. What makes this hostil

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Conclusion,ring popularity as a writer has remained remarkably unaffected by this. Indeed, it is this continuing popularity that has provoked and prolonged the struggle over his legacy, a struggle that has continued for some fifty years and to which this book is inevitably a contribution. Orwell was, as we hav

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Pox Britannica,nd indoctrinated to take his place in its ranks. His prep school, St Cyprian’s, was an ‘imperially-conscious’ institution, concerned to inculcate love of Empire, preparing its pupils for service in the colonies, training them for war. According to one recent account, Mrs Wilkes, the headmaster’s wif

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Down Among the Oppressed,a middle-class audience. Inevitably, this project involved problems: his expeditions were just that, temporary forays among the down-and-out, carried out by someone so far removed in background and upbringing as to be almost from another world. There was inevitably a ‘colonial’ dimension to the exer

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Only Revolution Can Save England,ding to an authoritarian regime, i.e. some kind of Austro-fascism’. The greater part of the left would, he believed, associate itself with this fascizing process just as it had gone along with Communist suppression of the revolutionary left in Spain. Support for the war effort would ‘ultimately mean

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A Choice of Evils,ith the ideas of the revolutionary left. Certainly, Bernard Crick and others have effectively demolished the notion that Orwell ever abandoned his socialist beliefs (although his pessimism is another more complex question), but the claim that he became a . socialist, a supporter of the Labour left,