W hołdzie Katalonii (1938)
George Orwell: Socjalizm
George Orwell był pisarz i publicysta angielski. Odkryj ciekawe cytaty na temat socjalizm.
In theory it was perfect equality, and even in practice it was not far from it. There is a sense in which it would be true to say that one was experiencing a foretaste of Socialism, by which I mean that the prevailing mental atmosphere was that of Socialism. Many of the normal motives of civilized life--snobbishness, money-grubbing, fear of the boss, etc.--had simply ceased to exist. The ordinary class-division of society had disappeared to an extent that is almost unthinkable in the money tainted air of England; there was no one there except the peasants and ourselves, and no one owned anyone else as his master. (ang.)
W hołdzie Katalonii (1938)
The thing that attracts ordinary men to Socialism and makes them willing to risk their skins for it, the 'mystique' of Socialism, is the idea of equality; to the vast majority of people Socialism means a classless society, or it means nothing at all. (ang.)
W hołdzie Katalonii (1938)
„Widziałem rzeczy wspaniałe i nareszcie wierzę naprawdę w socjalizm.”
I have seen wonderful things, and at last really believe in socialism. (ang.)
w liście do Cyrila Connolly’ego napisanym po powrocie z wojny domowej w Hiszpanii.
Źródło: cyt. za: Lee Wengraf, The Orwell we never knew, „International Socialist Review”, nr 32, listopad – grudzień 2003 http://www.isreview.org/issues/32/orwell.shtml
Therefore, as against genuine Socialism, the moneyed class have always been on his side. This was crystal clear at the time of the Spanish civil war, and clear again at the time when France surrendered. Hitler’s puppet government are not working men, but a gang of bankers, gaga generals and corrupt rightwing politicians. (ang.)
Źródło: The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79e/part14.html, 1941
Nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. (ang.)
Źródło: Wstęp do ukraińskiego wydania Folwarku zwierzęcego http://home.iprimus.com.au/korob/Orwell.html, opubl. w: The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943–1945 (1968)