> Poor Orwell, become a stick to beat his own with.
It's a lot easier to identify Orwell's enemies than it is to identify
his "own". He was anti-Tory, anti-colonialist and anti-fascist for I
think the same basic set of reasons: loathing of both the deference of
the servants and the smug contempt of the masters, the basic Etonian
set-up. Socialism for him meant that everyone had to live in the same
world. The trouble was that he had to live in it with them.
If you want a stick to beat a group of socialists with, even today,
you need look no further than the public pronouncements of a rival
group of socialists. For instance, some of the best anti-SWP material
out there may be found on the website of the Fourth International:
http://www.wsws.org/
Splitters!
Dominic
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