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Author(s):	Glenn Burgess

Date:	2024	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1501394657
Pages:	280	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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This is the first book to focus primarily on George Orwell's ideas about free speech and related matters  freedom of the press, the writer's freedom of expression, honesty and truthfulness  and, in particular, the ways in which they are linked to his political vision of socialism.

Orwell is today claimed by the Left and Right, by neo-conservatives and neo-socialists. How is that possible? Part of the answer, as Glenn Burgess reveals, is that Orwell was an odd sort of socialist. The development of Orwell's socialism was, from the start, conditioned by his individualist and liberal commitments. The hopes he attached to socialism were for a fairer, more equal world that would permit human freedom and individuality to flourish, completing, not destroying, the work of liberalism. Freedom of thought was a central part of this, and its defence and use were essential parts of the struggle to ensure that socialism developed in a liberal, humane form that did not follow the totalitarian path of Soviet communism.

Written in celebration of Orwell's dictum, 'We hold that the most perverse human being is more interesting than the most orthodox gramophone record,'
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