I love Orwell. He's wrong about socialism — it is humbug. But he's right about the brotherhood of mankind. Quotes like this are what I love him for:

"I am walking up and down the line of sentries, under the dark boughs of the poplars. In the flooded ditch outside the rats are paddling about, making as much noise as otters. As the yellow dawn comes up behind us, the Andalusian sentry, muffled in his cloak, begins singing. Across no man's land, a hundred or two hundred yards away, you can hear the Fascist sentry also singing."

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