Fwd: Re: Anarchism / Marxism debates

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Aug 17 11:33:53 PDT 1999


Doug Henwood wrote:


> [Doesn't Chomsky also mention a Foreword or something,
> where Orwell says we can point the finger but things
> aren't any better over here. Orwell points out the corporate
> control of information in the suppressed foreword?
>
> Brian

William Empson, in *Milton's God*, claims that Orwell aimed his satire primarily at Christianity. I have no idea whether the claim can be defended on other than Empson's say-so.

Carrol



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