Politics and the English Language (http://www.george-orwell.org/Politics_and_the_English_Language/0.html) is an excellent essay written by George Orwell. If you haven't read it you really should. If you already have, then you know it is worth reading again.

All of Orwell's works are available online at http://www.george-orwell.org

Many people who have read only Animal Farm and/or 1984 believe Orwell was a conservative. Read Down and out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier to understand why he became a socialist. His essay Shooting an Elephant explains his loathing of imperialism. Agree or disagree, they are all fine examples of great writing.

Thanks for the link to the free George Orwell stuff.

You'e right ... defining GO as a conservative (or a liberal for that matter) would be admitting not knowing that at his period in time, the definitive left-right split had not taken a solid footing, albeit, it was on it's way.

OTOH-- it wasn't necessarily akin to the multi-dimensional party affiliations such as witnessed during the Russian revolution -- socialists, liberals, left (who were really right :D) et al -- guess his time was somewhere inbetween.

Anyway, now I have no excuses for not refreshing my orwell.

Thanks for the link and "heads up". :)

"How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right."
-Black Hawk, Sauk-(1767-1838)Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
George Orwell

Funny people think that I just always assumed he was anti-authoritarian.