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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:27:38 -0000, "westprog"  wrote:   
      
   >"Steve Hayes"  wrote in message   
   >> But to British socialists like Orwell, Stalin was a betrayer of socialism.   
   >His   
   >> message may be summed up in the epigram, "Capitalism is the ruthless   
   >> exploitation of man by man, and in communism it is the opposite way   
   >round."   
   >   
   >But to many British socialists, Stalin was their leader. Orwell spoke for   
   >many British socialists, but many would have disagreed with him.   
      
   And that's one reason Orwell write books like "Animal farm" and "1984".   
      
   "Animal farm" is undoubtedly allegory, but "1984" is not. It's sf, just as   
   much as C.S. Lewis's "Out of the silent planet" (which is not allegory either,   
   though Christ is mentioned in it, and is called Maleldil rather than Aslan).   
      
      
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