Orwell au sujet de la relation police/ouvrier

Quelques autres citations tiré du bouquin :

-''The fat Russian agent was cornering all the foreign refugees in turn and explaining plausibly that this whole affair was an Anarchist plot. I watched him with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies — unless one counts journalists."

-''It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle … There was much in it that I did not understand, in some ways I did not even like it, but I recognized it immediately as a state of affairs worth fighting for.''

-''It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours.''

-'' An immense amount, enough to fill many books, has already been written on the subject [of the Barcelona fighting], and I do not suppose I should exaggerate if I said that nine-tenths of it is untruthful.''
(pour le contexte, il parle des affrontements entre le gouvernements espagnole de la seconde république aidé par les stalinistes du PCE contre les Anarchistes et les communiste du POUM à Barcelone en 1937.)

-" The revolutionary atmosphere remained as I had first known it. General and private, peasant and militiaman, still met as equals; everyone drew the same pay, wore the same clothes, ate the same food, and called everyone else 'thou' and 'comrade'; there was no boss-class, no menial-class, no beggars, no prostitutes, no lawyers, no priests, no boot-licking, no cap-touching. I was breathing the air of equality, and I was simple enough to imagine that it existed all over Spain. I did not realize that more or less by chance I was isolated among the most revolutionary section of the Spanish working class."
(Il décrit l'atmopshére qui règne à Barcelone en 1936 au début de la guerre ou la ville est sujette a une révolution anarchiste)


Edit : Lire ''Hommage à la Catalogne'' c'est un passage obligatoire pour bien comprendre la dimension politique des œuvres d'Orwell, du coup faîtes le si vous comptez lire ''1984'' ou ''La ferme des animaux'', ça permet de pouvoir comprendre toute la dimension critique de des œuvres (surtout la fin du bouquin ou ça parle exclusivement de politique).

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