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  • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]
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    4 years ago

    What's so bad about George Orwell?

    He attempted to commit a rape.

    Originally posted by reddit user parentis_shotgun.

    • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      There’s a reason they teach George Orwell in schools and not Franz Fanon, Che, Huey P Newton, Malcolm X, Lenin, CLR James

      In fairness I don't believe any of these other people ever wrote books that could be read and comprehended by middle schoolers.

      I admit I haven't actually read any of the works of any of these people. Yet. I will, I promise

      • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]
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        4 years ago

        The point stands. There are child accessible novels that look positively on communism, anarchist systems, etc. I can't think of any off the top of my head. Steinbeck is the closest I can come but his works weren't really explicitly pro-communist so much as sympathetic to the plight of working people and critical of the system's flaws.

        And there is a reason why certain books are so widely read. Yes an individual teacher or school with "progressive" administrations can set curriculum that involves books that challenge the American consensus but widely and broadly these books (Orwell) are popular, are recommended, are demanded or strongly encouraged by school board policy, are bulk bought, are included in study guides and teacher materials. Same thing with the Ayn Rand trash, purchasing of which is often funded by large donations by libertarian "think" tanks and private businesses. Books are a racket. School books especially so and many schools still use overly worn, quite old books because they simply cannot afford to replace them. A teacher who wants to assign reading typically must have enough copies of that book for everyone in the class plus themselves. That's often 25-30 or more books.