Gustaf
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« on: August 31, 2006, 12:46:39 PM » |
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I've read Atlas Shrugged, and I definitely preferred both Nineteen-Eighty-Four and Animal Farm to that (not to say AS wasn't interesting, but I guess I agree more with Orwell's sentiments, and secondly, think he was a better writer).
On the issue of Orwell's political ideology, he was definitely a full-fledged socialist, possibly even Communist (not in the strict sense, but in an emotional sense). People often forget that Orwell wrote his books with the zeal of a convert. His bitterness and hatred towards the SOviet Union and towards Communism stems from the fact that he believed in the ultimate good of its ideas and goals.
As a democratic socialist with fiery anti-Communist sentiments he wasn't really that unusual for his time. Social Democrats in most of Europe were sworn enemies to communists, a well documented fact. Social Democrats were also a lot less likely to convert to fascism and national socialism when it emerged.
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