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Orwell on Bernie (Original Post)
kpete
Jun 2015
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PatrickforO
(14,604 posts)1. Good picture. Bernie
is the leader of the populist backlash that has been overdue for decades.
Since 1980 they've peed down our backs and told us it is raining. Now it is time to wash away all that filth of neoliberal capitalism. Let's just hope it isn't too late for the Earth.
merrily
(45,251 posts)2. I like that pic! Thanks, kpete.
George Orwell, how very fitting. If alive, he probably would be supporting Bernie:
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 21 January 1950),[1] who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and commitment to democratic socialism.[2][3]
Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction, and polemical journalism. He is perhaps best known for his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945). His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working class life in the north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, are widely acclaimed, as are his essays on politics, literature, language, and culture. In 2008, The Times ranked him second on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)3. Excellent.