Social Democracy

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The paper examines the promotion of social democracy or socialism, at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, led by H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, H.M. Hyndman, George Orwell and Beatrice and Sidney Webb. The paper explains that World War II presented an opportunity to counter the fascism of the enemy with support for a more equitable social structure and government. The paper explores how propaganda was produced in various forms to further this utopian vision. The paper examines how Orwell reacted to these forces in his fiction with the satiric beast fable of "Animal Farm" and the dystopian novel "1984."

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"Pamphleteering has a long history in England and became a means of expression against government policies in the New World as well. As the mass media developed, the practice of pamphleteering expanded as well as various writers produced not only pamphlets and broadsides but longer essays, books, and other printed material to promote their causes. One of the causes that attracted a good deal of attention was the promotion of social democracy or socialism beginning at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, notably led by H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, H.M. Hyndman, and Beatrice and Sidney Webb."

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