Spencer's review
Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book)
by George Orwell
Unfortunately, a few chapters later he describes how the city began to take on it's pre-revolutionary character when the movement lost momentum.
Spencer's review
Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book) by George Orwell
Spencer's review
rating:
bookshelves:
finished
recommended for: Anarchists, History Buffs
This is Orwell's best book. It's an inspiring account of his fight in the Catalonia region during The Spanish Civil War. Don't take my word for it just read his description of seeing the New Collectivised Barcelona for the first time...
"It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle. Practically every building of any size had been seized by the workers and was draped with red flags or with the red and black flag of the Anarchists; every wall was scrawled with the hammer and sickle and with the initials of the revolutionary parties [...:] Churches here and there were being systematically demolished by gangs of workmen. Every shop and cafe had an inscription saying that it had been collectivised; even the bootblacks had been collectivised and their boxes painted red and black. Waiters and shop-walkers looked you in the face and treated you as an equal. Servile and even ceremonial forms of speech had temporarily disappeared [...:] a...more
"It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle. Practically every building of any size had been seized by the workers and was draped with red flags or with the red and black flag of the Anarchists; every wall was scrawled with the hammer and sickle and with the initials of the revolutionary parties [...:] Churches here and there were being systematically demolished by gangs of workmen. Every shop and cafe had an inscription saying that it had been collectivised; even the bootblacks had been collectivised and their boxes painted red and black. Waiters and shop-walkers looked you in the face and treated you as an equal. Servile and even ceremonial forms of speech had temporarily disappeared [...:] a...more
Unfortunately, a few chapters later he describes how the city began to take on it's pre-revolutionary character when the movement lost momentum.
