• Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    1984 isn't pro-anything. It's just a very long, very dull, barely disguised anti-Stalin rant.

    • 6bicycles [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      You're too deep. It's a great book against a surveillance state for what it's worth.

      • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        It really, really is not a "great book" by any metric. It absolutely drips with Orwell's bitterness over his experiences in Catalonia. It has no value of its own whatsoever, it is only interesting as an insight into the depth of Orwell's hatred for communists.

        • 6bicycles [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          It's a great book against a surveillance state. C'mon man, I know Orwells's a bit of a shit to put it lightly but that doesn't mean he didn't write a great book about how surveillance state bad actually that's digestable by the common man

      • kota [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Go ask a lib about bush and tell me he wasn't right about the memory hole.

      • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        No one has to rewrite historical documents or throw things in the memory hole because people literally do not care. They believe whatever they were most recently told to believe. All the evidence that Bush sucked massive ass is still out there, libs just don't care. It didn't go anywhere.