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|    Joe Fineman to Links editor    |
|    Re: =?iso-8859-1?q?Orwell=92s_Animal_Far    |
|    30 Apr 08 00:37:12    |
   
   00e9bfdd   
   From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   Links editor writes:   
      
   > This essay is the result of a re-reading of George Orwell's two most   
   > famous novels. Both Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four have   
   > acquired the status of textbooks, and are routinely used in schools   
   > to demonstrate to children the inherent dangers of social   
   > revolution. It is time for a reappraisal.   
      
   Reappraisal! How can people who write for a socialist journal have   
   remained ignorant for so long of the well-known fact that Orwell was a   
   socialist?   
   --   
   --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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