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Having traced the way in which classes emerged, flourished, and formed a system in England up to 1979 in a manner which enables us to distinguish them clearly from the classes of Russia, France and the United States, and having tested this version of events, as best we might, by providing plausible answers to FAQs about their peculiarities, we may at long last turn to answer Orwell directly. Perhaps I may do so in the conversational manner in which he first made his claim.
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Burrage, M. (2008). A Brief Reply to Orwell. In: Class Formation, Civil Society and the State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230593367_10
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