![]() We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are ‘enlightened’ all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free but our standard of living, and hence our ‘enlightenment’, demands that the robbery shall continue.Īlthough he had no direct connexion with any political party, Kipling was a Conservative, a thing that does not exist nowadays. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. ![]() The middle-class Left hate him for this quite as much as for his cruelty and vulgarity. Certain parts of it have a very modern ring to them:īut because (Kipling) identifies himself with the official class, he does possess one thing which ‘enlightened’ people seldom or never possess, and that is a sense of responsibility. ![]()
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