Publisher's Synopsis
This work assesses George Orwell's political writing, examining how his democratic socialism developed and changed in the nineteen thirties and forties. The book aims to determine whether Orwells' preoccupations form a common thread of coherent political philosophy and goes about this by asking four questions. These are, how did Orwell's thinking develop; is there such a thing as "Orwellism"; if so, what is it; and finally, what is its relevance to British socialist thought (and to the thought of the Labour Party) today?
