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Um, in 1984 the ruling government instituted Ingsoc... English Socialism.

• NeedMoreTea 7y ago
  Orwell himself said it was his imagining of communist totalitarianism as it might manifest in Britain. So don't get too hung up on IngSoc (The German Democratic Republic wasn't especially democratic - it was a (newspeak) theme) ;p Let me see if I can find the actual quote... [Edit:] There we go: "[Nineteen Eighty-Four] was based chiefly on communism, because that is the dominant form of totalitarianism, but I was trying chiefly to imagine what communism would be like if it were firmly rooted in the English speaking countries, and was no longer a mere extension of the Russian Foreign Office." With lots of other references to communism, Stalinism and Stalin in the Wikipedia section. One more quote worth relaying: In his 1946 essay "Why I Write", Orwell explains that the serious works he wrote since the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) were "written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism". Nineteen Eighty-Four is a cautionary tale about revolution betrayed by totalitarian defenders previously proposed in Homage to Catalonia Hence calling him an anti-communist democratic socialist. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Sources_for_literary_motifs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Sources_f...