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Orwell wasn’t a communist. “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for
by VieEnCode 4y ago
Orwell wasn’t a communist. “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.”
- typon 4y agoNot sure if this is a joke, but you are equating communism with totalitarianism, which is the opposite
- Nitramp 4y agoI think you're referring to Communism-the-abstract-concept, whereas Orwell and OP are referring the Communism-what-actually-happened-everywhere-we-tried-it. The former is a utopic ruler-less society, the latter ends up being a totalitarian terror state brutalizing its impoverished citizens. The very point of Orwell was recognizing this, and the fundamental similarity across totalitarian ideologies.