NP Orwell's politics

[jbor]

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> From: JBFRAME at aol.com
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> It's 
>     startling to find him, early on, repeating the communist line that
>     "fascism and capitalism are at bottom the same thing".
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> You mean they're not?

Well, not according to any dictionary or reference text that I can lay my
hands on at present. I guess what's most "startling" about the sentiment is
that Orwell was such a stern opponent of communism as well. _Animal Farm_
certainly symbolises how fascism and *communism* "are at bottom the same
thing", doesn't it?

It's a good article, written by a reliable authority; better to read it
before dismissing it out of hand, surely?

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

best