George Orwell must be rolling in his grave.
- John
‘George Orwell must be rolling in his grave.’
I doubt it, Eric Blair was a dyed-in-the-wool socialist - he’d probably agree.
I agree, having read Orwell's essays. One thing is true and it is must be stated first. Orwell served as an officer in the now named Myanmar- Burma. He so destested the treatment of the Burmese, that he turned against colonialism.
Two incidents show Orwell's attitude toward doctrinaire socialists. Public funding of elite "public schools" the preparation of the ruling classes, were to be cut off (promised the socialists). Orwell taxed a leading socialist about the promise. The socialist told Orwell, he saw it as a chance to SEND HIS CHILDREN to the same bastions of privilege. Orwell was horified.
In his book "Road to Wigan Pier", Orwell went up north to the impoverished industrial districts. He then observed Union leaders, paid up comfortable salaries by pay check off. Orwell was bemused, when the life style they adopted and their attitude was exactly the same as the middle-class English. The people who generally were hand in glove with the authorities. I might add from personal experience many of them the most sanctimonious holier than thou humans.
No one detested the established socialist any more than George Orwell/Eric Blair.