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[John Halle]

>
> > "Socialism calls up a picture of vegetarians with wilting beards, of
> > Bolshevik commissars (half gangster, half gramophone), of earnest
> > ladies in sandals, shock-headed Marxists chewing polysyllables,
> > escaped Quakers, birth control fanatics, and Labour party
> > backstairs crawlers.  If only the sandals and the pistachio-coloured
> > shirts could be put in a pile and burnt, and every vegetarian,
> > teetotaller and creeping Jesus sent home to Welwyn Garden City
> > to do his yoga exercises quietly!"
>
> Thanks for the quote, but where is it from?  Is it in one of his essays?
>

It's from The Road to Wigan Pier-can't seem to find it right now so i
can't get the exact reference-an account of Orwell tramping days inspired
by Jack London's wonderful book People of the Abyss. (Ehrenreich's Nickle
and Dimed seems to be the next entry in this lineage.)

Incidentally, Null would have available to him a superficially
powerful response to the above, namely that Orwell died at age 48 having
subsisted on a diet of coffee, rare meat, Guinness and cigarettes.


>
> There is a similar passage in Engels, I believe in _Anti-Duhring_,
> expressing disapproval just as strongly but with a less moralistic edge
> than in Orwell.
>
> Carrol
>

I'm curious as to what exactly you feel Orwell is expressing disapproval
of. Also, it is not clear to me what you find "moralistic" in the passage.
Of course, it is certainly judgemental, vituperative, harsh and snooty.

John Halle