On 25/1/05 10:52 PM, "Dominic Fox" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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.
Typical writerly dilemma, somehow...
Alison Croggon
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