i remember the half-truth going around when I was a teenager and first encountering this book, that orwell was actually writing about a system he himself was part of
it literally took until this thread for me to realise I still had never addressed that falsehood, like of course orwell didn’t actually live in the USSR, but i bet most people (if asked) will still believe that to be the case - that 1984 is orwell criticising a system he previously supported/was a part of, and not a piece of fiction spun out of whole cloth
that 1984 is orwell criticising a system he previously supported/was a part of
Technically, I guess this is true if you interpret it as being a critique of . IIRC, there’s nothing in the book indicating that Oceania is supposed to be a communist country, except maybe “Ingsoc”, but you can easily dismiss that by saying the Nazis called themselves socialists too.
DAE we’re living in 1984?
i remember the half-truth going around when I was a teenager and first encountering this book, that orwell was actually writing about a system he himself was part of
it literally took until this thread for me to realise I still had never addressed that falsehood, like of course orwell didn’t actually live in the USSR, but i bet most people (if asked) will still believe that to be the case - that 1984 is orwell criticising a system he previously supported/was a part of, and not a piece of fiction spun out of whole cloth
Technically, I guess this is true if you interpret it as being a critique of
. IIRC, there’s nothing in the book indicating that Oceania is supposed to be a communist country, except maybe “Ingsoc”, but you can easily dismiss that by saying the Nazis called themselves socialists too.
Yeah 1984 is a lot of things, but I never took it as anticommunist.
The anticommunist one is Animal farm.