I just realised, I can’t post anything on lemmy.ml

So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there’s a new moderator.

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  • Lenins2ndCat
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    1 year ago

    Lmao are you out of your mind? You think the man that spent a significant number of days throwing grenades at fascists in order to achieve communism in revolutionary Catalonia intended that book to be about communism and not about fascism? Have you actually read the fucking book?

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      1 year ago

      Yes, actually. Blair spent most of his time serving the same crown that backed fascist regimes, including writing up a list of suspected gays and communists for purging and/or arrest.

      Dude wrote Animal Farm ffs and baked so much distain for the proles into Nineteen Eighty-Four I wonder whether he ever actually liked the people he thought he was helping in Catalonia.

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        Animal Farm is a different book ffs. 1984 is about what fascism would look like in the UK conditions, how it would make itself appear in order to appeal and succeed, in much the same way the nazis took on “socialism” in order to appeal to germans due to its popularity at the time.

        1984 is not about communism. Regardless of Orwell being an anticommunist british media propagandist fuck in his later years playing into this and agreeing with the false notion this book is about communism hurts communists and is literally false.