Orwell's Struggle May Be Over...

Orwell’s Struggle May Be Over

 

American Thinker^ | November 22, 2012 | Ed Kaitz

 

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Posted on Thursday, November 22, 2012 8:45:29 AM by No One Special

 

By his own admission George Orwell was a committed socialist. About a year before his death in 1950 Orwell responded to the leftist charge that his recently published novel 1984 represented a direct attack on both socialism and the British Labour Party. Orwell calmed the fears of his progressive friends with the following response:

 

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“My recent novel [1984] is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter) but as a show-up of the perversions to which a centralized economy is liable and which have already been partly realized in Communism and Fascism.”

 

 

In other words, Orwell tirelessly promoted a kind of socialism that promised “political democracy, social equality, internationalism” and most importantly “freedom of thought and speech.” Orwell was under the impression that a “humanized” collectivist society was possible.

 

Indeed, those of us who have read and thoroughly enjoyed Orwell’s Animal Farm, 1984, and other great books and essays understand that Orwell truly hated despotism. But a more complex portrait of Orwell has to account for Orwell’s distaste for what he calls a “particular kind” of economic despotism — capitalism. Writing in the magazine Politics and Letters in 1948 Orwell said the following:

 

“Until well-within living memory the forces of the Leftin all countries were fighting against a tyranny which appeared to be invincible, and it was easy to assume that if only that particular tyranny — capitalism — could be overthrown, Socialism would follow.”

 

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What most post-WWII British leftists failed to recognize, said Orwell, was that the material prosperity and rising living standards guaranteed by the socialist representatives in Parliament could not be achieved without continuing the hated policy of British imperialism. Orwell’s solution to this dilemma was simple honesty: leftist politicians in power need to be…

 

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