...Time and Life magazines extended to 'threats' such as the Labour Party, Orwell was forced to respond: My recent novel is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party (of which / am a supporter) but as a show-up of the perversions to which a centralised economy is liable and...

...readership, Orwell wrote to the American United Auto Workers Union (UAW) on 16 June 1949: My recent novel in NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British...which a centralised economy is liable and which have been partly realised in Communism and Fascism. (Orwell 1970b: 564) Crick deduced from this correspondence...

...Ingsoc, or English Socialism' (p. 241). As against such a reading, we should note Orwell's denial: 'My recent novel is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter)' (Essays, IV, pp. 564, 566). A second frame of...

...per cent Americanism."32 In response to an inquiry from an American union member, he wrote that 1984 "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 and which have already been partly realized in Communism and Fascism."3...

...Wirkungen, Entwürfe und Chancen des utopischen Denkens. Dunckerund Humblot: Berlin, 1999 „My recent story is not intended as an attack on socialism or on the...Labour Party (of which I am a supporter) but as a show up of the perversions to which a centralized economy is liable and which have already been partly...

...indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it."14 Orwell elaborated: "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....