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Australian Notes

Australian notes

30 September 2023

9:00 AM

30 September 2023

9:00 AM

The Managerial Class

Recently I spoke at the Sydney Institute on the subject of George Orwell’s justly famous essay ‘Politics and the English Language’. After the talk, and the discussion which followed, a member of the audience asked me, ‘If Orwell were alive today, what would his politics be? Socialist or capitalist?’

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