• lazyViking@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    But it makes some sense tho, isn’t it Orwellian because it matches the horrific dystopian shit he predicted in his books?

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      Some of it was experience. The overarching theme of 1984 was the inevitable betrayal, which was a concept he grappled with most of his life.

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        Well I think most of his life is a bit much. I think specifically it’s his experience when he fought in Catalonia for the anti-authoritarian Marxists (POUM) having the Stalin backed communists betray POUM and kill and imprison his comrades.