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Totalitarian Pacifism

George Orwell: a man of remarkable prescience.

“The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a minority of intellectual pacifists, whose real though unacknowledged motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration for totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writing of the younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States…”

– George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism, May 1945

Via In Pectore.

Published at 8:28 am on Friday 2 July 2004. Categories: History.
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