Because 'capitalist realism' hadn't yet set in. Back then radical change was the norm.
Not to get too idealistic about it, but there was a lot of utopianism and proud technocratic ideology bouncing around intellectual circles too. Socialism through technology and industrialization. Socialism being a utopia or end-state. People really started trying to formalize societal/political/economic problems as technical problems and that was wrong. But if you were an intellectual back then, the Romanticism and that naive application of science was just part of the culture.
I'm too tired to connect this to material changes of the time, but it's there.
Orwell is hardly a socialist. How very nice of him to turn in homosexuals, black people, and actual socialist in to the government. Or to criticize the USSR as they were fending off fascism. Or writing those dogshit books everyone has read.
You know, I think most people haven't even read them, or did so once in high school and since have forgotten everything but the meme about the books
Basically NJR is an Orwell socialist. All talk but ready to sound off at the slightest discomfort.
again, the good take here that njr is within his rights not to share editorial or creative control of the publication. that doesn't make him not a socialist, and is a far cry from the accusations levelled against orwell.
The Road to Wigan Pier is definitely not dog shit. One off the best and most revealing investigative accounts of the miseries of the British working class told through the lives of exploited miners.
Neither is Down and Out in Paris and London. Another tour de force with great insights but also wit and humor about the grinding slog of working menial jobs under the heel of capitalism.
I mainly meant the ones that are always brought up. Animal Farm and 1984.
You know, proof that communism doesn’t work and probably counted in the black book.
He also plagiarized animal farm from an Austrian refugee who intended it to be anti nazi
Yeah there was a historical reason. The same reason as now. Capitalism is shit.
Bro, Albert Einstein literally wrote that essay explaining why. Just read that.
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Keep pushing this button. It works. Keep giving them lists of supporters of socialism that they were deliberate not taught about.
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