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armenian
02-14-2009, 12:52 PM
Hello comrades,

Are there any essays by Orwell that are particulary about the dangers of tyranny and its philosophy.

Lokasenna
02-14-2009, 01:42 PM
Yes. "England Your England", "My Country Right or Left" and "Shooting an Elephant" all spring to mind, but there are others.

armenian
02-14-2009, 02:37 PM
nice, i'll check those out.
reason why i ask is im going to be doing research on the dangers of neoconservitism soon, and at the moment i'm reading 1984, and i thought it would be interesting to seen what orwell would say against it in a more formal form

A Siege
03-07-2009, 02:06 AM
"Looking Back on the Spanish Civil War" contains some great material about tyranny. Orwell also did a review of Mein Kampf. "Catastrophic Gradualism" talks about Western apologists for Stalinism.