![]() ![]() He warned against the mistaken belief that modern reason would inevitably prevail over the absurdity and irrationality of fascism. ![]() In those essays, he did not treat fascism as some special province of the Germans or Nazism rather he argued people should search for the “fascist streak” within themselves and their own society. ![]() His essays against fascism and the British Tories offering apologetics for fascism in the 1930s should be required reading alongside his classic works of fiction, 1984 and Animal Farm. “I was all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors, the British.” Orwell’s military days in Burma taught him the human atrocity of the British Empire: “I had already made up my mind that imperialism was an evil thing,” Orwell reflected in his essay, Shooting an Elephant. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)Įric Blair, pen name George Orwell, was not perfect as a person, but then, who is? Nevertheless, Orwell got the three major issues of the 20th Century right: He was anti-imperialist, anti-fascist and anti-Communist/anti-Stalinist. A Ukrainian demonstrator protests in London, England against the recent invasion of Ukraine. ![]()
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