George Orwell is one of those few people whose writings were ahead of their time. At the period when most of the European so-called-intellectuals were undergoing an endless orgasmic relationship with the Stalinist Soviet Union, Orwell was one of the very few that actually saw the truth behind. Besides writing masterpieces such as "1984", Orwell has written a lot of interesting articles. I found this article while writing my thesis. And, realizing how awful my knowledge of English is (and reading some thesis works written by others), I thought that the following essay serves a good dual purpose - as a reminder for what the proper combination of brains and writing skills can do. So, click here for another proof that back in 1946 some people had better minds than most of us in 1999.

[editor's note: Please be careful with this text--Orwell [Blair] had just finished collaborating with the B.B.C. against fascists in India in World War II, and wrote this text in part to justify the work his journalism had done--for the Empire. Unlike his work with the PMRC in Catalonia, however, he was working within an autocratic institution; his opinions here show evidence of a fair bit of oligarchical bias. So please don't take this piece as a flawless argument for the role of social intervention into problematic discursive practices, but rather as a very specific historical one--where the left had been forced to work with capitalists to curtail fascist imperialism--and then had to reinvent itself after the Allied Powers had won. A similar reinvention is under way today--and I post this work to point out the danger of oligarchical imperialism so prevalent in almost all American political discourse today.]