The two authors have one crucial thing in common: they dare to resist the ‘prevailing orthodoxy’ of ‘right-thinking people’

It is interesting that the people in power who print magazines and set school curriculums (among other related things) think they're an edgy minority voice fighting against orthodoxy rather than just reproducing the conditions for capitalism and nationalism. I read 1984 like... 3 times for school and animal farm at least once.