Diving into Wyndham Lewis' work again, by the way, convinces me that we need a more deeply rooted history of post-leftism & paleo-conservatism. A lot of those tendencies already evident in 1930s "revolutionary conservatives" (a now largely forgotten formation)
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What's interesting about Wyndham Lewis is he's an early example of how obsessive contrarian owning of liberalism can lead to reaction. He almost literally joked his way into being a fascist sympathizer.
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The necessary context there is that a great number of left-wing British intellectuals of the 1930s weren't just anti-Hitler, they were pro-Stalin, often passionately so, and most would execute a screeching about-turn when Molotov-Ribbentrop was announced.
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Reminder that D.W. Griffith's Intolerance was a response to the critics who dared to suggest Birth of a Nation was racist!
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Orwell also had a few unkind words for the British left (apart from 1984 itself). In "Thoughts on the Common Toad," he criticizes those with no time to enjoy the natural world; he was an environmentalist before his time.
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Rebecca Solnit has a new book out on him and that topic and others, Orwell's Roses https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B08WZXMYT4/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_P2AT6Z313ESYR7AN71CE …
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Sounds like Lewis! I mean he made very similar arguments.
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Oh my god same
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