George Orwell - A Life in Pictures k

[nyomythus]

been written directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for Democratic Socialism as I understand it ..... I still can't get over the omission of Democratic Socialism....

[manatsunoshi]

i love this guy :D thank you so much for posting!

[Auntkekebaby]

This is in the now, sadly, again!

[davidoffon]

You throw a petrol bomb downstairs and the result. is a slow cooking, your own

[grassic]

I thoroughly share Orwell's politics but he could be unrealistic. There's no way the home guard was going to behave as a political militia, nor would it have been desirable. One of the reasons the Republicans did so badly in the Spanish Civil War was because of the infighting. Churchill, a minor aristocrat, DID manage to rally the people.

[porcupineprovocateur]

does anyone know what this piano music is?

[PersonalJesus348]

man is crazy. He must have some form of autism since he's so fascinated by facism he learns how to use firearms to stop it.

[david552]

Like all those millions of people who were conscripted in the Allied nations?

armchair-psych nonsense.

Besides, George Orwell was in the British Imperial police force, he would already have had firearms training long before.

[PersonalJesus348]

right but as any psychologist will tell you its started as a child. why did he want to enlist? that's what I was trying to say. His obsession lead him there.

[david552]

Well Orwell might have had a special hatred for fascism because of his experience of a cruel and tyrannical public school upbringing, but there were thousands of people who volunteered to fight in Spain, and in the home guard and were happy to be conscripted: because Nazism/Fascism was a real threat - it wanted to take over and subjugate the world. You don't need any "form of autism" to be obsessed by the dangers of war and fascism in 1930's Europe.

[PersonalJesus348]

yeah your right I dunno what I was thinking a month ago.

[037016]

a remarkable, sensitive and sensible thinker, indeed!

[RODERICKMOLASAR]

And remember: It's always easier to throw a bomb downstairs - than up.

[DrZenith]

Thank you for posting these clips; but could you put back the missing ones please?

[Vorgaak]

Orwell was key in my own development and understanding of the nature of politics and liberty.

[lollygager3664]

One of the most honest and heartfelt writers of the era.

[037016]

I agree!!

[wizwezel]

love how he so causaly throws that greande from one hand to another

[ProjectDystopia]

bravo