this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025
19 points (75.7% liked)
Asklemmy
45850 readers
1505 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy ๐
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
1984 was intended as fictional. Eric Blair wrote it in 1948.
I'm not sure that it is anymore.
His books are all pretty good. "Down and out in Paris and London" (or is it London and Paris? It's been a minute) is one of my favourites.
Don't you mean George Orwell?
And yes, it's fictional, but it's a condemnation of Stalinism.
George Orwell's real name was Eric Blair.
Blair was a communist, from what I remember, but started to see what socialism was really like and gradually reverted his attitude.
Animal Farm is along the same line but an easy read for kids.
Racist, imperial cop, rapist, worker hating, Eric Blair? That guy?
I know he started as a communist/socialist but began to change his mind over time.
His books changed their political leanings over time; for my interpretation at least.