also makes me think we should reinterpret and reclaim 1984 as a story not about the horrors of totalitarianism, but instead as the unreliably narrated story of a sex-obsessed fascist groomer getting girlbossed by a based undercover feminist comrade
When i first read 1984 i interpreted it as pretty clumsy, but very anticapitalist message, and i wasn’t even tankie back then, just succdem - that’s maybe because i was also read in various sci-fi dystopias which were mostly capitalist dystopias.
When i learned Orwell was anticommunist i was like “For fucks sake, how bad author he was that he achieved effect opposite to intended?”
also makes me think we should reinterpret and reclaim 1984 as a story not about the horrors of totalitarianism, but instead as the unreliably narrated story of a sex-obsessed fascist groomer getting girlbossed by a based undercover feminist comrade
(jk… unless?)
When i first read 1984 i interpreted it as pretty clumsy, but very anticapitalist message, and i wasn’t even tankie back then, just succdem - that’s maybe because i was also read in various sci-fi dystopias which were mostly capitalist dystopias.
When i learned Orwell was anticommunist i was like “For fucks sake, how bad author he was that he achieved effect opposite to intended?”