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Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell

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The Wrong Book by a Unknown Austrian Author

The working class has been through fachism, war and slump. It much prefers the risks that are run by state intervention to those posed by continuation of capitalism as they used to know it. This at a time when social democratic concensus among british intellectuals is almost a hundred%. So once again, he manages to be the one who is just slightly out of step with his fellow citizens.

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