George Orwell - A Life in Pictures i
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@WastedTourist the bullet discourse is from Homage to Catalonia??
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...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!!
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@haddon7373 Doesn't stop them editing it out.
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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..
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The discourse on the bullet is from "Coming up for Air"
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@david552 this was not made my the BBC just shown by the BBC
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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.
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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...
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"communist-led counter-revolution"
now that's something you wouldn't have heard in history lessons in USSR!
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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.
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