[lbo-talk] Re: Orwell (Coming back to the list....)

[Michael Dawson -PSU]

Orwell's utter disillusionment with official communism in 1936/37
> meant that he wandered off into the political wilderness so to speak.
> His later books like 1984 and Animal Farm really reflect his bitterness
> born in Spain and no doubt a lack of alternative politics in his time. I
> think he would have been a more hopeful man today than he was then. One
> should not underestimate the degree of hatred that was bred within the
> Republican ranks during the civil war.
> Tahir

Wow!  This point is so excellent.  I've never looked at it that way, but
that's exactly it, isn't it?  You are cool and smart, Tahir!  Myself, I've
never understood how anybody who's read the ending of Wigan Pier could ever
dislike Orwell or doubt what he was working for.  But, then, perhaps many of
his attackers haven't actually read that, one of the most beautiful,
down-to-earth explanations of the need for socialism I've seen.