Second Thoughts on James Burnham

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1946

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[Blair, Eric]. “Second Thoughts on James Burnham.” By George Orwell [pseud.]. Polemic: A Magazine of Philosophy, Psychology, and Aesthetics, no. 3 (May 1946): 13-33.

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Published under the pseudonym of Eric Blair. Rpt. as a pamphlet as James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution. London: Socialist Book Centre, 1946; as “James Burnham.” University Observer: A Journal of Politics 1.2 (Spring-Summer 1947): 65-74; and in Smothered Under Journalism. Ed. Peter Davison assisted by Ian Angus and Sheila Davison. Vol. 18 of The Complete Works of George Orwell (London: Secker & Warburg, 1998), 268-284, with a note on the text on 284. Argues, among other things, that Burnham is contending “that history consists of a series of swindles, in which the masses are first lured into revolt by the promise of Utopia, and then, when they have done their job, enslaved over again by new masters.”