From: henry999@eircom.net   
      
   Jason Voorhees  wrote:   
      
   > "none"  wrote...   
      
   > > Orwell lived [and died] believing in the Left's cause. He'd roll over in   
   > > his grave if he knew how the right had hijacked his name.   
   >   
   > I disagree.  What what I've heard, although Orwell was a true believer   
   > in socialism when he was young...   
      
   This used to come up here from time to time. Disagree all you want, but   
   the man himself wrote in 1946--when he was no longer 'young'--that   
      
   "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been   
   written, directly or indirectly, *against* totalitarianism and *for*   
   democratic Socialism, as I understand it."   
      
   (CEJL, vol. 1, #1)   
      
   cheers,   
      
   Henry   
      
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