Good lord would people stop acting like Orwell was some kind of political genius? Dude was a fiction writer. His stories are just red scare garbage with no real political theory outside of “What if I made a capitalist dystopia and called it communism?”
It’s supposed to depict what fascism would look like in the UK, how it would present itself and how it would act. INGSOC is doing the same thing as the nazis with “national socialism”. None of it is remotely socialist besides this label.
I know it gets used by anticommunists a lot but I’ve never really seen the book as anticommunist. Animal Farm fills that role.
Orwell said literally though that everything he’d ever written was “an attack on totalitarianism” and “a defense of democratic socialism” so the logical reading is 1984 is big bad stalinism
Good lord would people stop acting like Orwell was some kind of political genius? Dude was a fiction writer. His stories are just red scare garbage with no real political theory outside of “What if I made a capitalist dystopia and called it communism?”
1984 isn’t even explicitly about communism, ”gommulism = authoritarian” is just a popular trope so people started assuming it is.
It’s explicitly about communism, the ruling party is called INGSOC for “English socialism”
It’s supposed to depict what fascism would look like in the UK, how it would present itself and how it would act. INGSOC is doing the same thing as the nazis with “national socialism”. None of it is remotely socialist besides this label.
I know it gets used by anticommunists a lot but I’ve never really seen the book as anticommunist. Animal Farm fills that role.
Orwell said literally though that everything he’d ever written was “an attack on totalitarianism” and “a defense of democratic socialism” so the logical reading is 1984 is big bad stalinism
He picked English Socialism because National Socialism was already taken. It was written a decade after WW2 and was explicitly evoking the Nazis
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More people should read Burmese Days to realize what an absolutely garbage human he was.