Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 17:32:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Handelman <mhandelman1-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Taliban apologetics


I heard that Orwell was working for MI5, the British
intelligence agency, anyone know anything about this?

--- "-AT-ndy" <andy-AT-xchange.anarki.net> wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Birgit Bock wrote:
> 
> > This text reminds me of Orwell during the Spanish
> civil war, where is constantly hanging with the
> > trotskyist, and hating the dogmatic terms which
> appear to be missing the point, while at the same
> time
> > putting his life on the line with those very
> "party people".
> 
> I'm almost certain that Orwell's participation in a
> POUM militia during the Spanish civil war was more a
> question of luck than it was the result of a
> conscious decision on his part. As I understand it,
> Orwell was a
> member of the ILP at the outbreak of the war, and
> the reason he joined the POUM was because of some
> kind of a
> mix-up over his passport. Indeed, if all had gone
> 'well', he may have ended up fighting with a
> Communist
> 'militia'! Nevertheless, it's worth pointing out
> that at the (enforced) end of his first 'tour of
> duty',
> Orwell himself expressed a desire to have been able
> to have fought with the anarchists, whose politics
> he felt
> most closely aligned with his own (at that point in
> time).
> 
> -AT-ndy.
> 
> 
> 
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