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Definitely not hypocritically. I would never say that of Orwell who was the real deal. Just saying that most of us cannot see the implications of our thoughts
by nonrandomstring 3y ago
Definitely not hypocritically. I would never say that of Orwell who
was the real deal.
Just saying that most of us cannot see the implications of our
thoughts in our own epoch. Most dystopian authors playfully hope
they're wrong. So I think when Orwell penned his best anti-fascist
works the world was already on an optimistic post-war trajectory,
seeing an "arc of history that bends toward justice". Nobody had
anticipated technofascism is its emerging forms.
- nyokodo 3y ago> his best anti-fascist works Fascism has no false pretense of equality across races and peoples, which is clearly what Animal Farm was referring to, but Communism does. Orwell deliberately doesn’t name the ideology but clearly Fascism isn’t the only authoritarian ideology that Orwell was criticizing in his body of work.
- nonrandomstring 3y agoAbsolutely right. But what I've noticed is, it's acceptable to characterise technological authoritarianism and anti-humanism as "technofascism". Because we "all hate fascists" right? It's almost de rigueur. But naming it as "techno-communism" [0] or mentioning the Cosmist connection to techno-utopianism normally gets me marked down in these parts. Odd what waters flow underground. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_automated_luxury_communism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_automated_luxury_communi... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism
- georgeplusplus 3y agoAs someone who has lived in a communist country It hurts when I hear communism is good in theory or that true communism has never been tried. Yes it has and its awful.