Orwell Repudiates “Pacifism is Objectively Pro-Fascist”
Yesterday I posted briefly about George Orwell’s well-known 1942 claim that pacifism is “objectively pro-fascist,” and his later repudiation of that argument. Here’s the whole passage in which he disavowed the idea — it’s from his column, “As I Please,” in the December 8, 1944 edition of the left-wing London weekly Tribune.
Later this week I’ll have another post up discussing this column, and its applicability to contemporary political debates, in more detail.
Later this week I’ll have another post up discussing this column, and its applicability to contemporary political debates, in more detail.
“For years past I have been an industrious collector of pamphlets, and a fairly steady reader of political literature of all kinds. The thing that strikes me more and more — and it strikes a lot of other people, too —is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time. I don’t mean merely that controversies are acrimonious. They ought to be that when they are on serious subjects. I mean that
Quote of the Day
“Marijuana use does appear to foster alientation, towards both the family and society in general. In school and college settings, the tendency of users to form subcultures hostile to prevailing social customs and activities is well known. … It remains to be seen what sort of society will emerge as a generation so heavily associated with marijuana attains the position of leadership.”
– From The Marjuana Epidemic, a 1981 Heritage Foundation report by Stuart Butler, PhD
– From The Marjuana Epidemic, a 1981 Heritage Foundation report by Stuart Butler, PhD