![]() ![]() The object of persecution is persecution. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. ![]() We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. ![]() The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. What pure power means you will understand presently. It appeared in the first issue of Polemic: A Magazine of Philosophy, Psychology & Aesthetics, which was published in October 1945. We are not interested in the good of others we are interested solely in power, pure power. George Orwell’s Notes On Nationalism was written during his period as a war correspondent in the late spring of 1945. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. ![]() “Now I will tell you the answer to my question. Orwell classifies the prominent types of nationalism as Positive Nationalism (which is for one’s own country e.g. ![]()
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