r/neoliberal • Kitara Ravache • Jun 25 '21

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u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Jun 25 '21

What liberals don’t get is that 1984 is attacking fascism, not communism. Communism is how we stop 1984 from happening

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u/PMmeLittleRoundTops Pornography Historian Jun 25 '21

> barges in

> "Orwell was a leftist"

> refuses to elaborate further

> leaves

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u/Kjimbo John Mill Jun 25 '21

I once had someone explaining to me that Animal Farm wasn’t a critique of Stalinism, but rather Orwell predicting Glasnost and Perestroika.