• Thief_of_Crows@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    The point of animal farm is “Communists are so shit, they’re almost as bad as capitalists”. Suggesting that Orwell wouldn’t prefer communism to capitalism is simply false.

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      1 year ago

      His writings on the matter in his essays seem pretty clear that he’s against arbitrary unchecked statist authoritarianism, which is what I’m talking about.