Good lord would people stop acting like Orwell was some kind of political genius? Dude was a fiction writer. His stories are just red scare garbage with no real political theory outside of "What if I made a capitalist dystopia and called it communism?"
1984 isn't even explicitly about communism, ”gommulism = authoritarian” is just a popular trope so people started assuming it is.
It's explicitly about communism, the ruling party is called INGSOC for "English socialism"
It's supposed to depict what fascism would look like in the UK, how it would present itself and how it would act. INGSOC is doing the same thing as the nazis with "national socialism". None of it is remotely socialist besides this label.
I know it gets used by anticommunists a lot but I've never really seen the book as anticommunist. Animal Farm fills that role.
Orwell said literally though that everything he'd ever written was "an attack on totalitarianism" and "a defense of democratic socialism" so the logical reading is 1984 is big bad stalinism
He picked English Socialism because National Socialism was already taken. It was written a decade after WW2 and was explicitly evoking the Nazis
More people should read Burmese Days to realize what an absolutely garbage human he was.
If lib memes were a beer
Handmaiden's tale reads like a barely disguised fetish
So does 1984 at times
I thought you were trolling, but then I saw someone post this unironically on libsky
Octavia Butler:
These bozos never read Heinlein's Revolt in 2100 collection and it shows.
badposting is a comm where you post badly
This is not a [email protected] alternative. This is not a [email protected] alternative. This is a place for you to post your bad posts.
Ever had a really shitty bit idea? Joke you want to take way past the point of where it was funny? Want to feel like a stand-up comedy guy who's been bombing a set for the past 30 minutes straight and at this point is just saying shit to see if people react to it? Really bad pun? A homemade cringe concoction? A cognitohazard that you have birthed into this world and have an urge to spread like chain mail?
Code of Conduct applies just as much here as it does everywhere else. Technically, CoC violations are bad posts. On the other hand: L + ratio + get ~~better~~ worse material bozo
