r/georgeorwell

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Quotes from George Orwell

r/georgeorwell

Quotes from George Orwell- the self-described communist/Trotskyist, & anything else about him.

Created Sep 4, 2012

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YSK Orwell called himself a "socialist."

#Orwell:

"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism"

#Orwell:

"For some years past I have managed to make the capitalist class pay me several pounds a week for writing books against capitalism. But I do not delude myself that this state of affairs is going to last forever ... the only régime which, in the long run, will dare to permit freedom of speech is a Socialist régime. If Fascism triumphs I am finished as a writer – that is to say, finished in my only effective capacity. That of itself would be a sufficient reason for joining a Socialist party."

#Was he a communist?

There's not just one type of "communist." The Marxist army Orwell supported (POUM) was anti-stalinist.

"The Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) was a left-wing Trotskyist organisation formed by Andreu Nin in 1935 to oppose Stalinist communism in Spain."

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