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Old 21-04-2008, 05:15 PM   #169 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by BonnieDundee View Post
Similar kinds of socialism are as old as socialism itself.
Yes, but never before has it become the totally dominant force in society, as it is today.

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George Orwell was and remained a socialist, one quite similar, although he properly didn't have much time for intellectualising, to the Frankfurt school.
Yes. it's right to remind those moronic Tories who claim Orwell as one of their own that Orwell remained a Socialist, a fact which strengthens the power of his critique.

Today, however, a man who wrote 'I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler' would instantly find himself en route to PC oblivion.
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