...weakest aspect, namely its analysis of power - its supposed theme. Orwell himself said, 'My novel 1984 is not intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party but as a show-up of the perversions to which a centralised economy is liable ... I do not believe that...

...book is a satire) that something resembling rt could arrive. Dans cette même lettre, il évoqua les perversions to which a centralised economy is liable...already been partly realised in Communism and Fascism. Enfin, dans une note à son éditeur concernant la quatrième de couverture, il estima qu'il avait...

...class had its own voice and managed to maintain the structure of democracy. Hence, Orwell asserts, "My recent novel is not intended as an attack on Socialism or the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter)" (v. 4, 564). What the Inner Party represents...

...strongly with the observation that Orwell made as early as 1949: My recent novel [Nineteen Eighty-Four] is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the...supporter) but as a show-up of the perversions to which a centralized economy is liable. . . . The scene of the book is laid in Britain in order to emphasize...

...and rotting slums" (243). Howe is careful to include in his essay Orwell's disclaimer: "My novel 1984 is not intended as an attack on socialism, or on the British Labor Party, but as a show-up of the perversions to which a centralized economy is liable ..." (240)....

...of intellectuals everywhere, and I have tried to draw these ideas out to their logical consequences. The scene of the book is laid in Britain in order to emphasize that the English speaking races are not innately better than anyone else and that totalitarianism, if not fought...

...political realm. Orwell's intentions in writing 1984 are clearly manifest by his own descriptive statement. My recent novel is NOT intended as an attack on socialism...supporter) but as a show-up of the perversions to which a centralized economy is liable and which have already been realized in Communism and Fascism. I do not...

...dementi, often quoted by scholars though not widely heeded at the time, that Nineteen Eighty-Four was "NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party, of which I am a supporter. . . . "45 No statement, seemingly, could have been clearer. But Warburg apparently continued to advertise...

...United States) less than seven months before Orwell's death, will offer the skeptic further proof: My recent novel is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism...supporter) but as a show-up of the perversions to which a centralized economy is liable and which have already been partly realized in Communism and Fascism....

...569) quotes Orwell as writing shortly before his death in January 1950 apropos Nineteen Eighty-Four. My recent novel is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party (of which 1 am a supporter) but as a show-up of the perversions to which a centralized economy is liable and...