Re: Bad writing

[Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Flewers <paul.flewers@xxxxxxxxxx> said:

<snip>
>
> Actually, Orwell is not the best example for clear writing. To be
sure,
> he had a very good writing style, but when one considers that his last
> two novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, were and continue to
> be used as Cold War propaganda, something went severely wrong. He
> complained about their misuse, but if to have one novel misinterpreted
> looks like misfortune, to have two misinterpreted in exactly the same
> way looks like carelessness.
>
<snip>

I have to echo these sentiments here, and also echo someone that bears
repeating. Michael Parenti, even if one has a partcular "polemic" with
this or that that he said, is tremendously layman accessible. Anytime I
begin to talk socialism with a newcomer, I immediately refer them. Very
seldom does it not get the reader a clearer understanding, often MP
becomes a new favorite of said individual.


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