George Orwell’s Fascism And
Democracy (Penguin Books,2020) shows
how bourgeois democracy is preferable to Fascism and the degree of difference between
them matters a lot. Nationalism
has been more strong than socialism which is understood vaguely. The English
people come together in case of crisis. Communism has been a lost cause in western
Europe. Democracy is not a sham and its values cannot be dismissed as superstructure or illusion as doctrinaire Marxism maintains.
He also writes that totalitarianism means the end of literature . In democracy , the relative freedom enjoyed by people is more dependent on public opinion than on law. Resistance to evil is necessary to vanish it. Western Europe , The Americas, China and India will evolve their own form of socialism which is not totalitarianism .The reinstitution of slavery has been observed during the Second World War due to German totalitarianism which held concentration camps. Britain under War cannot be complacent thinking that it cannot happen here.
I n fact, except in case of China, Orwell's predictions have not come true and even there Socialism has turned authoritarian.
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