Counter-Currents
Used To Be A Socialist
Robert Colls’ George Orwell: English Rebel
Mark Gullick
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Robert Colls
George Orwell: English Rebel
Oxford University Press, 2013
Yet on the political and cultural left, the very name of Orwell is enough to evoke a shiver of revulsion.
Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters
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Blair could find some common ground with the Right. He supported a de facto British “second amendment” and his send up of the bohemian Left in Wigan Pier was hilarious.
George Orwell:
“That rifle hanging on the wall of the working class flat or laborer’s cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.”
—(from an Evening Standard article advocating for the wisdom of the WWII British Home Guard retaining possession of their government issued rifles as reported in, “The Same Man,
George Orwell & Evelyn Waugh, in Love and War” by David Lebedoff)
Great spot. That “rifle 0n the wall” quote is in the book. Correct me if I am wrong, but last time I checked, every Swiss man had to own a rifle, by law. Not a bad plan…
In recent times members of the military were allowed to store their service weapon at home along with a small amount of issued ammunition. They no longer issue the ammo, but they are allowed to store their weapon at home.
I had to look that up myself.
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