my first thoughts, conventionally enough, regarded my wife.. - as though it wasn't an intentional/deliberate thought and was one which he didn't want in his head before passing..
They also just said "trade unions," disregarding the fact that they were mostly anarcho-syndicalist trade unions. And that Orwell joined an explicitly Marxist militia. He's been kind of pinkwashed.
Capitalism is good, US capitalism isn't working because Corporations seize control of the market and stop it from being a truly 'free' capitalist system or a free market.
You talk of a truly "free" capitalist system while decrying the entities who have grown enormously rich and corpulent through the freedom the markets gave them. Ah, I see - the problem with capitalism is it's just not capitalist enough! That old shrivelled chestnut. Righty ho.
Also, I think you may have assumed I live in the US. I don't, but I do understand this is a common assumption with Americans.
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism AND FOR democratic socialism, as I understand it
@WastedTourist the bullet discourse is from Homage to Catalonia??
WilhelmEbert 1 month ago
...been written directly or indirectly against totalitarianism AND FOR DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM as I understand it.
i CAN'T BELEIVE THAT CRITICAL PASSAGE WAS LEFT OUT!!
nyomythus 8 months ago 2
my first thoughts, conventionally enough, regarded my wife.. - as though it wasn't an intentional/deliberate thought and was one which he didn't want in his head before passing..
LiMaoTang 1 year ago
The discourse on the bullet is from "Coming up for Air"
WastedTourist 1 year ago
Un-fucking-believable!
they cut "and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." and they say the BBC has a left wing bias...
I guess they thought "democratic socialism" was too complex an idea for our tiny minds to grasp...
david552 2 years ago 5
They also just said "trade unions," disregarding the fact that they were mostly anarcho-syndicalist trade unions. And that Orwell joined an explicitly Marxist militia. He's been kind of pinkwashed.
XYZandTime 2 years ago
@david552 this was not made my the BBC just shown by the BBC
haddon7373 2 years ago
@haddon7373 Doesn't stop them editing it out.
railman01 1 year ago
"communist-led counter-revolution"
now that's something you wouldn't have heard in history lessons in USSR!
aoeaoae 2 years ago 5
"The stupid mischance of it infuriated me. The meaninglessness of it..."
so true.
preacherthirteen 2 years ago
there was no "mischance". it was stupid and dangerous to look over the parapet and they all knew it.
any "meaninglessness" lay in his choice to commit the act.
bobkmando 2 years ago
i assumed i was killed
whhyyyyyyyyyy 3 years ago
Meet the new boss - same as the old boss.
RODERICKMOLASAR 3 years ago 2
cool acting.
Lion117 3 years ago
fascists, communists...a world rid of isms is the world we should strive for.
LeonidasIII300 3 years ago
yes...Capitalism...individualism...corporatism..westernism..racism.. just to mention a few....
Serbpride4lif 3 years ago 2
Capitalism is good, US capitalism isn't working because Corporations seize control of the market and stop it from being a truly 'free' capitalist system or a free market.
LordBoognish 3 years ago
Oh dear...you do realise the contradiction in what you've said...don't you?
beastatlay 3 years ago
Allow me to reiterate since you dont understand...You live in a Corporate Monopoly disguised as a capitalist society. That is not a contradiction.
LordBoognish 3 years ago
You talk of a truly "free" capitalist system while decrying the entities who have grown enormously rich and corpulent through the freedom the markets gave them. Ah, I see - the problem with capitalism is it's just not capitalist enough! That old shrivelled chestnut. Righty ho.
Also, I think you may have assumed I live in the US. I don't, but I do understand this is a common assumption with Americans.
beastatlay 3 years ago
we should strive to be a group of individuals: ie we have our own customs and quirks, yet we work together on the vital issues
multitudinal 2 years ago 3
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism AND FOR democratic socialism, as I understand it
Edrem908 4 years ago 18
Here Here!!! To Democratic Socialism!!
medulalumosa 3 years ago 12
was just going to write the very same thing.
xXxCondomBoyxXx 2 years ago