I think the following would be a more inspiring quote from Orwell:
*"Cranham "6.4.49.*
*"Dear Celia,*
*"I haven't written earlier because I have really been rather poorly, and I can't use the typewriter even now, so I hope you will be able to cope with my handwriting.*
*"I couldn't think of any more names to add to your possible list of writers except FRANZ BORKENAU (the Observer would know his address) whose name I think I gave you, and GLEB STRUVE (he's at Pasadena in California at present), the Russian translator and critic. Of course, there are hordes of Americans, whose names can be found in the (New York) New Leader, the Jewish monthly paper 'Commentary', and the Partisan Review. I could also, if it is of any value, give you a list of journalists and writers who in my opinion are crypto-communists, fellow-travellers or inclined that way and should not be trusted as propagandists. But for that I shall have to send for a notebook which I have at home, and if l do give you such a list it is strictly confidential..."*
Etc.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/oct/26/artsnews.booksnews -Peter
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> [WS:] I am more skeptical - following Orwell's skepticism (see below). A
> mass movement can succeed only if it is backed by an institutional
> structure
> capable of governing a country. Without such institutional backing, it
> will
> be either squashed like a bug or else it will fizzle out like stale beer.
>
> In other words - the protesters will win only if they manage to capture the
> Egyptian state but it seems likely only if the military switches sides.
> Otherwise, the protest will end like the Polish Solidarity did.
>
> Wojtek
>
>
> http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/gandhi/english/e_gandhi
> "At the same time there is reason to think that Gandhi, who after all was
> born in 1869, did not understand the nature of totalitarianism and saw
> everything in terms of his own struggle against the British government.
-- Peter Fay