George Orwell was an imperialist piece of shit. The is an excellent article by mark ames on Orwell and hitchens:
https://exiledonline.com/big-brothers-george-orwell-and-christopher-hitchens-exposed/
What’s so bad about George Orwell?
- He’s antisemitic, homophobic, and racist. Specifically, he snitched out Jews, Black people, Homosexuals, and communists to British Intelligence. His list, here, includes him writing:
- 8 variations of “Jewish?” (Charlie Chaplin), “Polish Jew, (Tom Driberg)” “English Jew,” or “Jewess.”
- Paul Robeson - “ROBESON, Paul (US Negro) …Very anti-white. [Henry] Wallace supporter.”
- Paul Robeson wasn’t anti-white, just look at the welsh coal miners for whom Robeson Campaigned.
- The testimony of Paul Robeson (one of the people Orwell snitched on), to HUAC (House of Unamerican activities committee) during the red scare.
- Stephen Spender - “Sentimental sympathiser… Tendency towards homosexuality”
- Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish nationalist poet, and anti-imperialist.
- George Padmore, Trinidadian journalist and anti-imperialist campaigner.
- His books Animal Farm and 1984 are used widely as anti-communist propaganda in schools in the US and UK. So much so that his animated animal farm film was funded by the CIA. There’s a reason they teach George Orwell in schools and not Franz Fanon, Che, Huey P Newton, Malcolm X, Lenin, CLR James, etc.
- In 1941, illustrator Elias Gertrude approached Orwell, then an editor for the British Ministry of information, with an idea for a satirical cartoon film, portraying the Nazis as pig characters ruling a farm in a kind of dysfunctional fairy story. He told her that there was not much call for her idea, stole it, changed the name from A Fairy Story to Animal Farm, and changed the pig-nazis into Communists.
- Between 1952 and 1957, from three sites in West Germany, a CIA operation codenamed ‘Aedinosaur’ launched millions of ten-foot balloons carrying copies of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, and dropped them over Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia — whose airforces were ordered to shoot the balloons down..
- Orwell, anti-communist: A criticism of Orwell and his Work - By Isaac Asimov.
- Orwell - “I have never really disliked Hitler.”
- He attempted to rape one of his first courtships: “Previously the young couple had kissed, but now, during a late summer walk, he had wanted more. At only five feet to his six feet and four inches, Jacintha had shouted, screamed and kicked before running home with a torn skirt and bruised hip. It was “this” rather than any gradual parting of the ways that explains why Jacintha broke off all contact with her childhood friend, never to learn that he had transformed himself into George Orwell.”
- Redsails - On Orwell.
- Rainer Shea - Orwells 1984 - Anti-communist propaganda.
- Orwell worked as a British imperial cop in Burma for 5 years. His short story, Shooting an Elephant, uses ethnic slurs and denigrates burmese people.
- A reddit thread on George Orwell, Thread #2.
good comment
“socialist” who snitched on actual socialists and supported UK more than USSR. Especially during WW2 in which 4/5 of Nazis died on eastern front… being against USSR is being a nazi
so many self proclaimed “socialists” support him, ugh.
- He’s antisemitic, homophobic, and racist. Specifically, he snitched out Jews, Black people, Homosexuals, and communists to British Intelligence. His list, here, includes him writing:
Most fascists love Orwell actually
Exactly, the issue so many people seem to make is in thinking that fascists have to be openly supportive of Hitler or whatever, like no they lurk AMONG US
Gonna start unironically critically supporting ingsoc to own the Orwellites
You know, this symbol I believe is from the movie, and I don’t know what it’s supposed to signify exactly… but it’s a little bit telling that it’s a white hand shaking a black hand. Is the problem that Big Brother supports miscegenation and interracial unity?
It’s probably written off as supposing to be a glove or some other shit. But it still rubs me wrong.
It is supposed to be a communist symbol unironically, with the black hand supposed to represent an industrial glove, with the lines being shiny latex, and the white hand is supposed to represent farmers and the agrarians.
This makes sense seeing how the whole movie and book is just "GoMMuniZm BaD!!!
George Orwell when workers exist:
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?”
At this rate I’m starting to love Ingsoc I can’t lie…
I always thought the arm was to represent a robot or smth
It’s just weird bcuz there’s no androids or robots in the story are there? I haven’t seen the movie either tho so maybe they changed some stuff. If it’s gloves, I still don’t get it. Are gloves authoritarian?
Libs have a list of untouchable people where if you say anything remotely negative about thrm they will lynch you in a blaze of freedom of speech glory.
Notable new additions include Elizibeth II and Zelensky.
“everyone who criticizes george orwell is a fascist”
Gonna cry about it?
Ah yes, anyone who says something bad towards a racist bigot is a fascist. Right.
Orwell is a lying ass scum sucker.