Foreword, Churchill, Orwell

[Terrance]

pynchonoid wrote:
> 
> --- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > "All Left-wing parties in the highly industrialized
> > countries are at
> >   bottom a sham, because they make it their business
> > to fight against
> >   something which they do not really want to
> > destroy."
> 
> Like those WMDs Bush and Blair have promised us?
> The War is pointless, unless you're selling bombs and
> depleted uranium,  infrastructure reconstruction
> services, or just happen to enjoy killing and maiming
> innocent civilians.  The anti-war movement
> demonstrated this amply in the run-up to the attack on
> Iraq, and has been in every way justified by events.
> 

The quote above that I sent to the Pynchon List is Blair's (eric arthur
blair, AKA George Orwell). 

Here it is again: 

"All Left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at  
bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against  
something which they do not really want to  destroy."

It's important to insist that 1984 is a satire of Orwell's own immediate
milieu. The same can be said of GR. The readers, the baby-boomer
P-listers, have failed to make these connections clear, (say, 
connecting GR with Vietnam or Civil Rights) because they are hell bent
on using 1984 and GR as propaganda in the current debates about current
political happenings.