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Does Orwell’s 1984 belong to the left or the right? (thespinoff.co.nz)

submitted 4 weeks ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/fiction

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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (4 children)

Its author was a paid propagandist and a snitch who reported queers, jews, and other minorities as well as communists to the British state. It belongs to the right and is a caricature politics at best. This should be obvious from the way far right governments like the US make kids read it.

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[–] Arthur 3 points 3 weeks ago

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