The Britain of 1984 is a socialist enclave, doing what it can to feed and care for its citizens though it is reeling from atomic war, surrounded by rogue states and beset by an extremist insurgency.
Obviously doesn’t fly with authorial intent, but it’s a solid revisionist reading.
With the right rewrite I think so. It's not even a huge rewrite, the work is good, it just needs specific leftist phrasing changed to lib-friendly things. There's a bit too many "workers" in there and you can't use proletariat or bourgeoisie in lib-friendly works. Instant brain shutdown.
If you did a rewrite with a particularly good snooty pseudo-intellectual tone you could really get the libs that like to sound as clever as possible going with it. You could easily give it an "I'm incredibly clever" edge.
I wonder if Current Affairs would take it. They look respectable.
With the right rewrite I think so. It's not even a huge rewrite, the work is good, it just needs specific leftist phrasing changed to lib-friendly things. There's a bit too many "workers" in there and you can't use proletariat or bourgeoisie in lib-friendly works. Instant brain shutdown.
If you did a rewrite with a particularly good snooty pseudo-intellectual tone you could really get the libs that like to sound as clever as possible going with it. You could easily give it an "I'm incredibly clever" edge.