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[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 62 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I thought CHUDs loved 1984 because it is anti-communist? Not to read of course, but to point to and say "see, communism doesn't work, even in fiction!"

[–] Red_October@hexbear.net 55 points 5 days ago

“It’s over, commies. I have depicted you as the fascists and myself as the pervert!”

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 33 points 5 days ago

I think that's just the movie, they like it because it involves fighting and toxic masculinity, they don't realise the movie and the book say that they are bad things.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 50 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Conservatives turning on 1984 is among the most baffling shifts against a book that I can imagine short of them explicitly throwing out a book of the Bible.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 48 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Almost as embarrassing as leftists recommending it.

[–] 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

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[–] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 54 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Grapes of Wrath is genuinely a great book

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 33 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Grapes of Wrath, A People's History and Gender Queer can all be helpful to comrades. I don't know many of the rest.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 32 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Yep. It's a glimpse into the past to let us in the present prepare for our near future

Do we really need to wait that long to bury our Fox News-poisoned grandparents in a roadside ditch somewhere, though?

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 49 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If these people could actually read they'd be pretty upset if they discovered Perenti.

Also, listing "anti-war" as a reason it's inspiring "radical violence" kinda gives the whole game away.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago

Also "anti authority" coming from the people who claim to be for "small government" lmao

[–] Umechan@hexbear.net 41 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You wouldn't believe the depraved acts of violence the Lorax has inspired against patriots.

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 28 points 5 days ago

The trees can't be harmed if the lorax is armed

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 37 points 5 days ago

Better attempt at a radical reading list than any liberal has put out, at least.

[–] ashenone@lemmy.ml 38 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If the lorax is armed the trees can't be harmed

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 36 points 5 days ago (1 children)

To be fair peoples history actually radicalized me when I read it in high school

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 36 points 5 days ago

One of the few books on the list that actually grows class consciousness

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Fucking hell, how do you put The Lorax on there and not have a 'are we the baddies?' moment? Though for USians I suppose it's always just 'are we getting paid enough for being the baddies?'

And even then, it's not even accurate: "pro-violence?" How? The lorax never even threatens violence, meanwhile the onceler rolls up in this thing:

Unless they're trying to say the book implies a call to violence since talking is ineffective at preventing capital from destroying the planet phoenix-think

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 32 points 5 days ago (3 children)

We desperately need a version of The Lorax where he's just a straight-up revolutionary guerilla fighter

JB-shining-aggro

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 17 points 5 days ago

marx-guns-blazing I am the Guer-ax! I wreak for the trees, for the trees have no guns!

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[–] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Johnny Got His Gun is pretty sick in all the right ways, highly recommended for my comrades if you've never heard if it.

a couple of kickass passages

It will be you. It will be you—you who urge us on to battle, you who incite us against ourselves, you who would have one cobbler kill another cobbler, you who would have one man who works kill another man who works, you who would have one human being who wants only to live kill another human being who wants only to live. Remember this. Remember this well you people who plan for war. Remember this you patriots, you fierce ones, you spawners of hate, you inventors of slogans. Remember this as you have never remembered anything else in your lives.

Put the guns into our hands and we will use them. Give us the slogans and we will turn them into reality. Sing the battle hymns and we will take them up where you left off. Not one not ten not ten thousand not a million not ten millions not a hundred millions but a billion two billions of us all the people of the world we will have the slogans and we will have the hymns and we will have the guns and we will use them and we will live. Make no mistake of it we will live. We will be alive and we will walk and talk and eat and sing and laugh and feel and love and bear our children in tranquility and security in decency in peace. You plan the wars, you masters of men, plan the wars and point the way and we will point the gun.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Most who’ve heard of it probably know it because of the video for One by Metallica.

[–] Biggay@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago

I read it in highschool for that reason, I think it was really the first and maybe last horror book I ever read, shit was real dark and depressing and i dont even really remember much of it because of that.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 30 points 5 days ago (9 children)
[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Seriously, can't just call it anti-pro-fascism?

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[–] BadTakesHaver@hexbear.net 23 points 5 days ago (3 children)

the only book I could get through was the lorax. the other books dont have enough pictures. very difficult

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Enjoying books with pictures in them gigachad

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 26 points 5 days ago

I love that they have 7 and 8 in a tie, leaning hard into pretending they have a numerical basis for this

[–] CrookedSerpent@hexbear.net 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago

Bit idea: teaching children the wrong gender roles on purpose, as a joke. Like we tell boys it's manly to always eat facing away from the table with your plate in your lap and girls should eat from a place with the highest viewpoint where they have 360° vision at all times?

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] ephemeral@hexbear.net 23 points 5 days ago

Pro-Environment

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is this real? This can't be real

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[–] sammer510@hexbear.net 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Orwell spinning in his grave

[–] axont@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Radical leftist democrat cartoon depicts four teenagers and their talking dog enacting antifa style violence against brave patriotic real estate developers dressed like pirate ghosts

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[–] MineDayOff@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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Critical support for the Western fight club ending that differs from the book (banking institutions blown up)

Supportive criticism for the Chinese ending that matches the book (mental hospital)

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I don't think this is real. A reverse image search only comes up with people making fun of this and no original source. In addition, genspect tries very hard to maintain a very apolitical/just-medical-experts-with-purely-medical-concerns veneer, and I doubt they would cosign something as blatantly partisan and risk losing credibility in the process.

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[–] UltraGreen@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

I'm probably wrong in my analysis, but I always thought fight club was somewhat "pro masculinity".

A man who can't sleep, has zero sense of belonging, success, accomplishment stops sleeping and starts essentially a men's therapy group. He takes in other men who are also dissatisfied with life and capitalism and consumerism. He gets them to take out their anger in fights, creates a sense of brotherhood, and unites them to do something truly productive and positive; blow up the banks.

Whenever I hear that leftists have trouble with getting men involved because there isn't a ton of men's support groups that aren't run by chuds who have extensive sexual assault charges, I think of this book.

It's a male therapeutic expression of the crushing nature of capitalism, and how it is inherently an inhumane way go through life.

I also understand it's one of the most misinterpreted books ever, chuds think it's just a cool movie about fighting lmao.

[–] hedd616@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago

Took me awhile

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