Censored Preface To Animal Farm
Apparently George Orwell’s original preface to Animal Farm was censored - you can read the preface here, along with a useful introduction to it by Robert Weaver.
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Ben G
December 13th, 2005
A good intro by Weaver, in a few brief paragraphs he gets it dead right about Orwell,while many write millions of words getting it wrong.
I agree with Weaver whole-heartedly, except for that I seriously doubt Orwell would ever have succumbed to the path of Burnham (or Hitchens for that matter.) His commitment to the Labour movement was too great and undying.
I think his shameful “naming” of “sympathisers”, though totally objectionable, really was an abberation and the misjudgement of a sick man, not representative.