I read the book a long, long time ago, way back before I was radicalized. I disliked it back then too, but that’s only because it was a boring ass book that was just like ‘authority bad’. recently, there’s been a surge of people reading that junk and i’m kinda curious what the specific critiques of that book are. I could read it again myself but i’d very much rather not.
http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm
REVIEW OF 1984
By Isaac Asimov
During World War II, in which he was rejected for military service, he was associated with the left wing of the British Labour party, but didn't much sympathise with their views, for even their reckless version of socialism seemed too well organised for him.
He wasn't much affected, apparently, by the Nazi brand of totalitarianism, for there was no room within him except for his private war with Stalinist communism.
Consequently, when Great Britain was fighting for its life against Nazism, and the Soviet Union fought as an ally in the struggle and contributed rather more than its share in lives lost and in resolute courage, Orwell wrote Animal Farm which was a satire of the Russian Revolution and what followed, picturing it in terms of a revolt of barnyard animals against human masters.
Blair was a racist, a snitch, an imperial cop in the colonies, and would've concider Keir Starmer of today's labour party a fucking commie and rat him out to MI6
I fact I would go as far as to say he was a beefsteak nazi with dilusions of how red he was on the outside when he's in truth welldone.
