Decoding George Orwell's Ideology
In this episode of Canonball we discuss selected writings by George Orwell. I forgot to mention that Orwell was shot in the neck in the Spanish Civil War.
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0:00 Orwell's Life
4:13 Some Of Orwell's Friends And Publishers
5:10 Orwell's Publisher Working With The Information Research Department And CIA To Translate And Disseminate "Animal Farm" After Orwell's Death
6:10 Orwell's Position On Stalin And The Shifts Before And After WWII Reflected In "1984"
7:53 Difficulty Publishing "Animal Farm"
8:58 Orwell's Influence
9:43 His Ideology, Defining Socialism, "The Road To Wigan Pier," "Toward European Unity," Orthodox Marxism
21:09 "Shopkeepers At War" – Socialism As State Ownership Of Means Of Production
25:33 "The London Gutters Will Have To Run With Blood" And Economic And Intellectual Liberty
31:04 "Some Central-Heated Air-Conditioned Strip-Lighted Paradise"
32:13 Trotsky, Stalin, And Communism As A Counter-Revolutionary Force
36:23 "Why I Write" And "Dickens"
38:52 "Inside The Whale"
40:16 "Ought I To Say This? Is It Pro-Fascist?"
42:55 "The Prevention Of Literature"