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Re:The lesser-known Orwell: are his novels deserving of reap... by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday January 09, 2021 @04:54PM (#25705235)
You can see 1984's themes in play today in democratic governance: Say one thing and do another. Label groups as "the enemy" to have a target for hatred. Denigrate critical thinking and much more. It covers more than just Stalinist totalitarianism.
Re:The lesser-known Orwell: are his novels deserving of reap... by dragonwriter on Saturday January 09, 2021 @05:05PM (#25705337)
> You can see 1984's themes in play today in democratic governance

Sure, but that's not really germane to the review, which isn't that 1984 doesn't highlight some things that are real concerns that might affect even non-Stalinist governments (as Stalinism itself includes some elements that can be found outside of it, as well), but that 1984 is basically an unimaginative, literal overlay of Stalinism on top of contemporary (at the time of writing) English society through the biases of the authors social class where the technical elements were relatively unimaginative and poorly thought through in their pragmatics.

Re:The lesser-known Orwell: are his novels deserving of reap... by 082349872349872 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:28AM (#25711915)
Like Animal Farm, 1984 probably says as much or more about english attitudes than about Stalin. (but selling them as about Stalinism was almost certainly a key social hack to weaseling them into the anglophone curriculum)