Edit: Assuming this is true, I’m not sure whether Orwell realized the contradictions between his actions and what he wrote. Most of his works consisted of an active denunciation of totalitarianism and indoctrination, yet his acts ressemble those of some of his characters.
That contradiction completely didn’t existed. He was anticommunist as many western pseudoleft and wrote pieces of anticommunist propaganda. And his actions were also completely in line with the bourgeois racist state of UK he chosen to support. However:
Most of his works consisted of an active denunciation of totalitarianism and indoctrination
This is the funniest part. A lot of leftists reading his books assume he meant capitalism, especially that capitalist core states seems to treat 1984 like some sort of manual and are implementing a lot of it in this or that form.
Which actually make him completely shitty writer since he reached effect opposite to intended, that’s why you have every rightwinger media constantly reminding you Orwell wrote against communism.
yet his acts ressemble those of some of his characters.
Yeah just as many westolefto when having to choose between dictatorship of proletariat and dictatorship of bourgeoisie he did chosen the latter but in this case it seems he was not really pondering this choice for even a second.
No seriously, I had to be told 1984 was about communism when I first read it because I thought it was about imperialism. And I wasn’t even a communist back then.
It was obvious his works were of an anticommunist (and antifascist) nature. But, I precise, his argument against communism was supposedly its inherently totalitarian aspect as he wrote at some point in 1984. This was even clearer in Animal Farm which is his allegory of the Soviet Union.
At some point in 1984, he negatively tells about some indoctrinated kids who reported their parents to the authorities. Which, ironically, resembles his actual behavior, a big ass proof that ideology doesn’t demarcate totalitarianism.
Ironically, literally 1984.
Edit: Assuming this is true, I’m not sure whether Orwell realized the contradictions between his actions and what he wrote. Most of his works consisted of an active denunciation of totalitarianism and indoctrination, yet his acts ressemble those of some of his characters.
That contradiction completely didn’t existed. He was anticommunist as many western pseudoleft and wrote pieces of anticommunist propaganda. And his actions were also completely in line with the bourgeois racist state of UK he chosen to support. However:
This is the funniest part. A lot of leftists reading his books assume he meant capitalism, especially that capitalist core states seems to treat 1984 like some sort of manual and are implementing a lot of it in this or that form.
Which actually make him completely shitty writer since he reached effect opposite to intended, that’s why you have every rightwinger media constantly reminding you Orwell wrote against communism.
Yeah just as many westolefto when having to choose between dictatorship of proletariat and dictatorship of bourgeoisie he did chosen the latter but in this case it seems he was not really pondering this choice for even a second.
As for rest, read Asimov review of 1984.
No seriously, I had to be told 1984 was about communism when I first read it because I thought it was about imperialism. And I wasn’t even a communist back then.
It was obvious his works were of an anticommunist (and antifascist) nature. But, I precise, his argument against communism was supposedly its inherently totalitarian aspect as he wrote at some point in 1984. This was even clearer in Animal Farm which is his allegory of the Soviet Union.
At some point in 1984, he negatively tells about some indoctrinated kids who reported their parents to the authorities. Which, ironically, resembles his actual behavior, a big ass proof that ideology doesn’t demarcate totalitarianism.
Totalitarianism is a liberal buzzword invented precisely to make this kind of statements which ultimately boils down to nazi=communism=evil.