George Orwell's June 1949 letter to Francis Henson: the novel is meant to show the perversions a centralized state is open to, and warns that something like it could arrive anywhere if not fought.
My recent novel is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter) but as a show-up of the perversions to which a centralised economy is liable and which have been already partly realised in Communism and Fascism.
George Orwell's June 1949 letter to Francis Henson: the novel is meant to show the perversions a centralized state is open to, and warns that something like it could arrive anywhere if not fought.