“Good thing he only used words, not IEDs.” wrote itwasnotme. Well, the day before writing this Eric had been to the LDV group conference, and through involvement in that he was trained (and offered training) in IEDs and the like. He also got quite excited about the possibility of arming the working classes through the LDV and the potential for revolution that offered. Whether we call him Marxist or Socialist, Eric was no liberal and was willing to fight for what he believed in.
Stephen, try the Lion and Unicorn, part 2 section 1 for more in this vein. For example:
“Zweee — BOOM! What’s that? Oh, only a bomb on the Stock Exchange. Zweee — BOOM! Another acre of somebody’s valuable slum-property gone west. Hitler will at any rate go down in history as the man who made the City of London laugh on the wrong side of its face. For the first time in their lives the comfortable were uncomfortable, the professional optimists had to admit that there was something wrong. It was a great step forward.”
(from http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79e/part14.html )