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George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four returned to Portland library after 65 years (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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This book and also Brave New World should be on every school curriculum.

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[–] altz3r0@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm very divided with 1984. It's context is so massively anti-communist, yet it ironically portrayed much of the authoritarianism we see today in capitalist countries. So much so that when I first read it in my teens, it didn't cross my mind that he was taking shots at old Russia! I find it to be one of those few things that are better when you interpret it wrong.

[–] 0x815@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@altz3r0

ironically portrayed much of the authoritarianism we see today in capitalist countries.

Which "capitalist countries" do you mean? I'd agree there is dangerously growing surveillance in Western Europe and the US, but this surveillance is much worse in self proclaimed anti-capitalist and "anti-western" countries like China or Russia or Iran.

I'd say 1984 is anti-totalitarian, and that has nothing to do with a particular political ideology.

[–] cavemeat@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Given Orwell's negative experiences with communism, I don't think its innaccurate to say it was a reflection of the biggest communist country at the time--the USSR. That being said, it can be interpreted however anyone wants, and it being interpreted as solely anti-totalitarian works better in my humble opinion.

[–] 0x815@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I fully agree.