Post AxMaU6Nndt6irvCDDM by nemobis@mamot.fr
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 (DIR) Post #AxMaU6Nndt6irvCDDM by nemobis@mamot.fr
       2025-08-19T13:52:26Z
       
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       #Orwell wrote about the #JustTransition in 1947 ("Toward European Unity"):«The European peoples, and especially the British, have long owed their high standard of life to direct or indirect exploitation of the coloured peoples. [...] But it is by no means certain that we can afford these things if we throw away the advantages we derive from colonial exploitation. [...] a long and uncomfortable reconstruction period for which public opinion has nowhere been prepared.»https://archive.org/details/collectessayorwe00geor/page/372/mode/2up
       
 (DIR) Post #AxMaUDNhceBmZeCjXE by nemobis@mamot.fr
       2025-08-19T13:53:58Z
       
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       Yesterday I was quoting this passage from memory to a friend (I've read it some 20 years ago) and he scarcely believed that Orwell had actually written such a thing. (Some people remember his "patriotic" and anti-Soviet writings more.)