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Short Takes #18: In Their Own Hands

George Orwell | Colin Newlyn | Naeema Zarif | Rachel Happe

Stowe Boyd
Feb 28, 2026
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Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is,…

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