Foreword "The Postwar State of 'Socialism'"

[Dave Monroe]

   "What is clear from his letters and articles at the
time he was working on 1984 is Orwell's despair over
the postwar state of 'Socialism.'  What in Keir
Hardie's time had been an honrable struggle against
the incontrovertibly criminal behavior of capitalism
toward those whom it used for profit had become, by
Orwell's time, shamefully institutional, bought and
sold, in too many instances concerned only with
aintaining itself inpower.  And that was just in
England--abroad, the impulse had been further
corrupted, in immeasurably more sinister ways, leading
at length to the Stalinist gulags and the Nazi death
camps." ("Foreword," p. xi)

Keir Hardie

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRhardie.htm



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