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user-inactivated  ·  3751 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Orwell's review of Hitler's "Mein Kampf"

    The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won’t do.

Orwell was a genius of the highest order.