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Yeah but Orwell didn't give a damn about the colonial question. His
activities after the events in Spain were boot-licking exercises in the
service of the British Empire. When he named names for the intelligence
services he explicitly said that Paul Robeson and Henry Wallace were
"anti-white", a pretty obvious premonition of the notion of "reverse
racism". Whether the Popular Front period had more losses than gains for
the Communist parties worldwide is a debate that has to be totally removed
from Orwell's explicitly racist, sexist, homophobic, and imperialist
criticism of it that portrays itself as a left critique. It's not an
accident that the Cold War liberal Lionel Trilling wrote an introduction to
the book in 1952.
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Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 16:58:17 +1000
From: Gary MacLennan <gary.maclenn...@gmail.com>
To: Gregory Adler <gregadler...@gmail.com>, Activists and scholars in
Marxist tradition <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu>
Subject: Re: [Marxism] Orwell-bad history?
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Agreed Gregory. I read a piece by Chomsky long ago which made the point
that the suppression of the revolutionary impulse was the problem. The
Republican government for example failed to declare an end to colonialism
and thus gifted Franco with Moorish troops.
comradely
Gary
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Gregory Adler via Marxism <
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
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> This is a succinct view of the anti-Orwell position on the Civil War and
> the suppression of the revolutionary forces. Although I am far less
> attracted overall to Orwell than some on this list in this matter I think
> he was on the side of the angels.
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> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/06/george-
> orwell-homage-to-catalonia-account-spanish-civil-war-wrong
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