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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 1072173" data-attributes="member: 2189">You are correct in that context does matter.&nbsp; It should be noted that Orwell, real name Eric Blair, was a member of Home Guard and he also shared the views of Tom Wingtringham who helped form Home Guard and saw it as a type of people&#039;s revolutionary militia.&nbsp; Wingtringham, himself a marxist, wrote the book, &quot;New Ways of War&quot;&nbsp; and in 1930&#039; helped found the communist newspaper, The Daily Worker.Prior to Home Guard, Wingtringham fought on the side of the communist in the Spanish Civil War and some credit him with the concept of International Brigades.&nbsp; After returning from Spain he took a job as journalist with the Picture Post and the Daily Mirror where he advanced his ideas in respect to Home Guard and to quote his writings in the Post and Mirror, &quot;a people&#039;s war for a people&#039;s peace.&quot;&nbsp; Wingtringham also instructed in street fighting and guerilla warfare.Orwell was of the Fabian Socialist tradition and was more a gradualist than a revolutionary and I have no doubt he would not blanket support the American tradition of guns but at the same time I&#039;m not convinced he&#039;d oppose guns in the hands of certain people either.You are absolutely correct, context is everything!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 1072173, member: 2189"] You are correct in that context does matter. It should be noted that Orwell, real name Eric Blair, was a member of Home Guard and he also shared the views of Tom Wingtringham who helped form Home Guard and saw it as a type of people's revolutionary militia. Wingtringham, himself a marxist, wrote the book, "New Ways of War" and in 1930' helped found the communist newspaper, The Daily Worker. Prior to Home Guard, Wingtringham fought on the side of the communist in the Spanish Civil War and some credit him with the concept of International Brigades. After returning from Spain he took a job as journalist with the Picture Post and the Daily Mirror where he advanced his ideas in respect to Home Guard and to quote his writings in the Post and Mirror, "a people's war for a people's peace." Wingtringham also instructed in street fighting and guerilla warfare. Orwell was of the Fabian Socialist tradition and was more a gradualist than a revolutionary and I have no doubt he would not blanket support the American tradition of guns but at the same time I'm not convinced he'd oppose guns in the hands of certain people either. You are absolutely correct, context is everything! [/QUOTE]

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