The Lion and the Unicorn

One of the classic essays of George Orwell The Lion and the Unicorn explores the option of a British socialistic revolution replacing the old order to win the war against the Nazis.Orwell argued, being a socialist and being a patriot were no longer antithetical, but complementary. As a result, "The Lion and the Unicorn" became an emblem of the revolution which would create a new kind of socialism, a democratic "English Socialism" in contrast to the oppressing Soviet totalitarian communism—and also a new form of Britishness, a socialist one liberated from Empire and the decadent old ruling classes