• umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    13 days ago

    i find it ironic how orwell wanted to write criticism to socialism but ended up predicting capitalism’s future.

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      13 days ago

      ?? IIRC 1984 was criticism of all totalitarianism which he saw in Stalin’s Soviet Russia and Franco’s Fascist Spain. He was a democratic socialist, and opposed to authoritarianism.

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        12 days ago

        orwell was very well known to be a big anticommunist. hence his comparison of soviet russia with fascism.