An excerpt from the full essay that even today still rings true, "All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are ‘enlightened’ all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our ‘enlightenment’, demands that the robbery shall continue."
An excerpt from the full essay that even today still rings true, "All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are ‘enlightened’ all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our ‘enlightenment’, demands that the robbery shall continue."
Ole GO was never afraid to send a shot, or two, across the bow! This also reminded me of Nietzsche's poetry in "The Gay Science."
This isn’t about poetry, but I noticed your stack and thought you’d appreciate it!https://open.substack.com/pub/susanbordo/p/if-george-orwell-could-critique-broadcast?r=384ha&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web