From the PROPER BLOG: What Occupations Can Learn From George Orwell
As a keen political thinker and an eyewitness to the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell’s insights are a very good way to understand anarchist military in practice. Orwell had briefly served as acting-lieutenant in charge of thirty soldiers, and “never had the slightest difficulty in getting an order obeyed” under the system. “It was understood that orders had to be obeyed,” he writes in his war diaries Homage to Catalonia, “but it was also understood that when you gave an order you gave it as comrade to comrade and not as superior to inferior.”
