Lenin never wrote about what happens when chickens and horses do manual labour and pigs get drunk.
I wonder how to reconcile Orwell’s warnings in 1984 & animal farm considering that m/l theory is seemingly being proved right in slow motion since Reagan/Nixon and the trickle of CIA secrets over the decades.
Was he prophetic or just another well spoken liberal?
Reposting this.
Orwell had an excellent understanding of what living in a modern empire was like; He was a colonial cop in occupied India after all. He saw and participated in the British oppression of India and, like all good liberals, he took the things he saw there and sublimated it onto the Enemy. When he was writing the Enemy was the Soviet Union but he could have just as easily written it about France, Germany, Japan, America, or any other state that the British propaganda apparatus was designating as the Enemy when he was writing his book.
Don’t feel bad about quoting Orwell to describe the sort of state he lived in. That’s what he was taking inspiration from, even if he didn’t realize it. He certainly wasn’t inspired by the Soviet Union, how could he be? He had never even been there, he had only had it described to him.
