George Orwell – A Final Warning – YouTube.
Orwell was dying from tuberculosis when the controversy surrounding 1984 erupted. He took some steps to rescue it from the right, declaring, “My recent novel is NOT intended as an attack on socialism.” The danger lies in the structure imposed on socialist and liberal capitalist communities by the necessity to prepare for total war with the USSR and the new weapons, of which the atom bomb is the most powerful…. But danger lies also in the totalitarian outlook of intellectuals of all colors. The moral to be drawn from this dangerous nightmare situation is a simple one “Don’t let it happen. It depends on you.
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