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Can Socialists Be Happy?

George Orwell

Written under the name John Freeman: Dickens’s Christmas, and why every utopia is easier to imagine as the absence of pain than as happiness.

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Public domain in Canada and Hong Kong, where copyright ends fifty years after the author’s death. It may still be under copyright elsewhere: not for use or redistribution outside Canada or Hong Kong.

  • Tribune, 20th December 1943. Published under the name ‘John Freeman’. Reading text after the Orwell Foundation.

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