NP Orwell's politics

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/0106/02/spectrum/spectrum2.html 

is an edited version of the introduction by Timothy Garton Ash to _Orwell &
Politics_, edited by Peter Davison (Penguin):

    Not that his own political judgment was always good. His vivacious and
    perceptive wife Eileen wrote that he retained "an extraordinary
    political simplicity". There are striking misjudgments in his work. It's
    startling to find him, early on, repeating the communist line that
    "fascism and capitalism are at bottom the same thing".

    He opposed fighting Hitler until well into 1939, only to reverse his
    position. ...

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