As a rallying cry for social revolution, Orwells essay, The Lion and the Unicorn, merits acclaim equal to his later allegorical novels, Animal Farmand 1984, although it never caught the publics imagination in the quite the same way. Eric Arthur Blair, known by his pen name as George Orwell, was born into a privileged class but developed socialist leanings and a shrewd writing style that spawned an output of essays, newspaper articles, literary criticism and novels. Writing in the autumn of 1940 London during the early months of the blitz with bombs falling around him, Orwell makes a case for bottomup social change in Britain, a transfer of power from the decadent ruling class to the working and middle classes. Many of his ideas in the essay rejection of fascism, capitalism and Sovietstyle communism, all of which, in his view, gave too much power to too few came from his personal involvement in the Spanish Civil War. The British class system, says Orwell, is an anachronism that is hampering the war effort and in order to defeat Nazism there has to be a fundamental transformation towards democratic socialism to motivate the people of Britain to fight. He espouses a new equitable patriotism, founded on British traditional values and customs, a patriotism that would unite the people and release the hold of the ruling class over them, alongside a careful dismantling of the British Empire. While his prediction that revolution in England was a sine qua non for victory, proved...

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