And wrote one of the most reprinted, popular, impactful, damaging anti-communist works of all time? I don't think so.
If that man is to be considered a socialist then the term loses all meaning. Traitors do not get to be called the thing they betray in memoriam and he hardly did anything significant for the cause in his life to justify overlooking his attacks. He did not die anything but a bitter anti-communist.
Apologies for this lengthy reply but I really must try and disabuse people of claiming him.
And playing that game with liberals as a gotcha is fruitless, 1984 is transparently an attack on the USSR (and the notion of a DoTP in general) and any attempt to make it into anything else is pointless, millions of people have been taught to interpret it as an anti-communist work and been able to to the point it is mandatory school curriculum in the imperial core. He fought with leftists in Spain but he was at the end of the day an anti-communist as because the communist faction supported by the USSR gained the upper hand he fled and waged for the rest of his life a private war against communism and the Soviet Union, trying to destroy it in favor of a kind of gentlemanly "English Socialism" which would conform with his bourgeois morals (he was after all bred as a member of the upper class in the bosom of British imperialism). Whatever he might have been when he picked up a gun in Spain, by the time he did anything of note (publishing his book) he was a rabid anti-communist willing to snitch to British authorities and should be remembered and roundly condemned as such. We must remember this man lived through the rise of fascism, fought it as a youth, and came to know of its atrocities and what did he write a book repudiating? The force that stopped it.
He is not a socialist who:
repudiates actually existing socialism,
endorses the foremost imperialist nation and oppressor (at the time of his writing while the US was an ascendant power it cannot be argued that Britain was along with other European powers like France still the slavemaster of the global south, still the foremost colonizer, the heart of empire, an empire admittedly that did begin to fall apart thanks to the Axis powers invasions which precipitated many independence movements),
snitches to that foremost anti-communist power,
is homophobic and bigoted in other ways,
writes a famous anti-communist work cited so much and poisoning so many brains that his name has come to be a term for liberals representing a controlling system.
And wrote one of the most reprinted, popular, impactful, damaging anti-communist works of all time? I don't think so.
If that man is to be considered a socialist then the term loses all meaning. Traitors do not get to be called the thing they betray in memoriam and he hardly did anything significant for the cause in his life to justify overlooking his attacks. He did not die anything but a bitter anti-communist.
Apologies for this lengthy reply but I really must try and disabuse people of claiming him.
And playing that game with liberals as a gotcha is fruitless, 1984 is transparently an attack on the USSR (and the notion of a DoTP in general) and any attempt to make it into anything else is pointless, millions of people have been taught to interpret it as an anti-communist work and been able to to the point it is mandatory school curriculum in the imperial core. He fought with leftists in Spain but he was at the end of the day an anti-communist as because the communist faction supported by the USSR gained the upper hand he fled and waged for the rest of his life a private war against communism and the Soviet Union, trying to destroy it in favor of a kind of gentlemanly "English Socialism" which would conform with his bourgeois morals (he was after all bred as a member of the upper class in the bosom of British imperialism). Whatever he might have been when he picked up a gun in Spain, by the time he did anything of note (publishing his book) he was a rabid anti-communist willing to snitch to British authorities and should be remembered and roundly condemned as such. We must remember this man lived through the rise of fascism, fought it as a youth, and came to know of its atrocities and what did he write a book repudiating? The force that stopped it.
He is not a socialist who:
Source: Asimov's famous take-down of 1984, near the start
Yeah, he’s an anti-communist, and his socialism is bitter and twisted. But even Asimov commented that he had all the energy of a sectarian leftist.
Also, if you twist your head and squint your eyes, 1984 is a communist utopia.
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