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Old 25-04-2008, 12:43 PM   #176 (permalink)
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Yes, but never before has it become the totally dominant force in society, as it is today.
Well certainly the Franfurt school kind has not.


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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.
It doesnt at all.

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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.
Well Orwell loved the anarcho-syndicalism so of the CNT-FAI as well and fought against Franco so it would be too much to read much into those words without context.
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