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minus-square☂️-@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·3 months agoi find it ironic how orwell wanted to write criticism to socialism but ended up predicting capitalism’s future.
minus-squareJaderick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·3 months 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.
minus-square☂️-@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-23 months agoorwell was very well known to be a big anticommunist. hence his comparison of soviet russia with fascism.
i find it ironic how orwell wanted to write criticism to socialism but ended up predicting capitalism’s future.
?? 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.
orwell was very well known to be a big anticommunist. hence his comparison of soviet russia with fascism.