Let us broach a polemical subject. The British author George Orwell is very well known for works such as Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and his book about the Spanish Civil War, Homage to Catalonia. Throughout 2022 I intend to discuss each of these three works in detail.

Animal Farm isn’t a critique of revolutionaries; it’s a critique of workers. It’s an aristocratic manifesto against the working class.

    • leftofthat [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      "and since he believed in a gentlemanly English form of socialism, he was inevitably on the losing side"

      Got em

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Opposed to him were passionate Spanish anarchists, syndicalists, and communists, who bitterly resented the fact that the necessities of fighting the Franco fascists got in the way of their fighting each other.

      Isaac why you gotta do this to me.

  • jmichigan_frog [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Fuck George Orwell/All My Homies Hate George Orwell

    I'll give him credit for being a talented writer and risking his neck in Spain. But everything he writes is tinged with Angloid middle class snobbishness. All the non-white (and several English characters) in Burmese Days are caricatures.

  • Tofu_Lewis [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Damn, this just perfectly illuminates why the story felt "off" to me when I read it, even as a dumb 13-year old.