Apparently he was a socialist, but he was against “authoritarian socialism” like Stalinism. What are your opinions on him and/or his writings?

  • Star Wars Enjoyer @lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    4 years ago

    He wasn’t a socialist… like at all. He may have written about anti-capitalism, and he may have called himself a socialist, but he was a member of the petty-bourgeoisie who benefitted from the exploitation of the proletarian class - predominately the foreign variety - and actively opposed socialists. Instead of going on a long rant about Orwell again on Lemmy (you might be able to find the other times we’ve talked about Orwell with a search) I’ll post a link to an article talking about him. (and a few other fakes)

    https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2019/08/orwell-hitchens-and-hollow-self.html

    Comrades don’t let comrades support Orwell.

    • Star Wars Enjoyer @lemmygrad.ml
      92·
      4 years ago

      To go into more detail, the modern equivalent to Orwell in the year of our lord 2020 is Vaush. Just a liberal anti-socialist, whom appropriates leftist language and symbolism, but uses it to direct would-be-leftists to support the status quo, liberalism, and the elite. Orwell sold out Marxists directly to Robert Conquest, a known Anti-Communist and head of England’s anti-communist taskforce not unlike America’s J. Edgar Hoover. That list included people for their politics, but it also included people for their race, and their sexuality. His critiques were no better than you’d see in modern western newspapers, he never stepped a single foot in the USSR - everything he knew about it came through England’s anti-communist filter - he could not have possibly been an authority on the USSR in any way. Yet, anti-communists laud him as a saint and take his word as gospel.

      It is, to this day, ridiculous that leftists still put their trust in him. But, it’s understandable. His book, 1984, is required reading in the school systems of many western nations. I myself had to read it in my senior year of high school, mandatory for graduation. He is offered to impressionable minds, not for what he represents - that being free thought - but for what he is. Propaganda. Most upsettingly, at least to me, the big critique in 1984 - that 2+2=5 - is just Orwell being upset that the 5 years plan set in motion by J. Stalin was completed one year early. Nothing else really to it, just that it was called a “five years plan” and it took four years. Pretty fucking ridiculous a critique to make.

    • pimento@lemmygrad.ml
      7·
      4 years ago

      FYI you can remove the ?fbclid and everything after from your link, thats for user tracking from Facebook.