06 January 2010

Classic George Orwell -


http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79r/chapter13.html
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Posted by George at 1:57 AM

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  1. Little RichardjohnOctober 29, 2010 at 10:18 AM

    When people insist that socialism is impossible because perfection is impossible, I find this useful. Socialism isn't about utopias, or even happiness, but being able to trust each other.
    "At the risk of saying something which the editors of Tribune may not endorse, I suggest that the real objective of Socialism is not happiness. Happiness hitherto has been a by-product, and for all we know it may always remain so. The real objective of Socialism is human brotherhood. This is widely felt to be the case, though it is not usually said, or not said loudly enough. Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another. And they want that world as a first step. Where they go from there is not so certain, and the attempt to foresee it in detail merely confuses the issue."
    http://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/socialists/english/e_fun

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