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[–] miz@hexbear.net 45 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The only people who misunderstand George Orwell’s 1984 are those that go around trying to imagine it has a leftist message. It is mistaken to imagine that children in the English-speaking world get his work drilled into them like a mantra because, somehow, genuine socialists managed to sneak his work past a censor that banishes the likes of Karl Marx and Malcolm X.

The less complicated reading is the correct one: it’s an anti-communist book that the establishment pushes, and the right adores and cites constantly, because it is effective anti-communist propaganda.

from https://redsails.org/on-orwell/

[–] CommCat@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago

I also like Isaac Asimov's dunk on 1984 and Orwell:

https://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm