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John Rodden points out the " undeniable conservative features in the Orwell physiognomy " and remarks on how " to some extent Orwell facilitated the kinds of uses and abuses by the Right that his name has been put to.
" Rodden refers to the essay " Why I Write ", in which Orwell refers to the Spanish Civil War as being his " watershed political experience ", saying " The Spanish War and other events in 1936 – 37, turned the scale.
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for Democratic Socialism as I understand it.
" ( emphasis in original ) Rodden goes on to explain how, during the McCarthy era, the introduction to the Signet edition of Animal Farm, which sold more than 20 million copies, makes use of " the politics of ellipsis ":
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