Dr. David Ramsay Steele: “The Five Times George Orwell Changed His Mind”

What were George Orwell’s (1984, Animal Farm) political and social views? The best way to give an accurate and reasonablly quick answer to that question, dispelling common misconceptions, is to focus on the occasions when Orwell changed his mind.

The speaker of the event, Dr. David Ramsay Steele, is a British author. He has published several works, such as The Conquistador with His Pants Down: David Ramsay Steele’s Legendary Lost Lectures (2024), The Mystery of Fascism: David Ramsay Steele's Greatest Hits (2019, a collection of 23 previously published articles), Orwell Your Orwell: A Worldview on the Slab (2017, a study of George Orwell's beliefs), Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy (2008, a popular exposition of atheism) and From Marx to Mises: Post-Capitalist Society and the Challenge of Economic Calculation (1992, an exposition of the economic calculation problem). Since 1985, he has been Editorial Director of Open Court Publishing Company. In 1997, he co-wrote with Michael R. Edelstein Three Minute Therapy: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life, a psychological self-help book based on Albert Ellis's rational emotive behavior therapy, re-released in paperback, 2019. In 2013, he co-wrote with Michael R. Edelstein and Richard K. Kujoth Therapy Breakthrough: Why Some Psychotherapies Work Better than Others, a study of cognitive-behavioral therapy arguing for its superiority to psychodynamic therapy. From 1963 to 1973, Steele was a member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB).[1][2] In 1970, he became aware of the historical debate over economic calculation and between 1970 and 1973 underwent an intellectual conversion from SPGB Marxism to libertarianism. He later co-founded the Libertarian Alliance and in 1982 would be identified with one of the two factions that resulted in the split of the group.

LOCATION: The name of the condo building is River Plaza, located at 405 N. Wabash. We will meet at unit 4507. River Plaza is located right next to the Trump Tower near the Chicago River. On the first floor of the building, you will see an Italian restaurant, Bongiorno’s. You will need to go through the front desk and sign in with the door staff. In the glass door take one of the elevators on your right. (There are two sets of elevators; you will need to take one of the elevators that go to floors 26 and above.) Take the elevator to the 45th floor and it is the first unit on your right as you get off the elevator.
(The door to the unit will be left unlocked so you can walk right in.)