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[-] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

And yet he personally could never personally dislike him. How much of a Hitler loving bastard do you have to be to acknowledge all of his evil and then turn and say and yet I could never even dislike him not to mind hate or abhor. Not to mind his thoughts on the Burmese the fact he was a rapist, how he was pushed by the CIA (they funded the British original animation) or how animal farm is a polemic against the working class. As Jones Manoel put it

Orwell spends the entire book describing generations of animals as easily confused, dumb, stupid, illiterate, amnesiac… the entire book! The main target of this book’s critique aren’t the revolutionaries or communism: it’s the working class. George Orwell writes from an aristocratic ethos. “Elite theory” posits the people as incapable of self-governance, without the capacity to constitute themselves as a political subject, and therefore always the object of dispute and manipulation by vying elites. The people lack the capacity for political self-determination, cannot build a political program or engage in autonomous political action. This is George Orwell’s theory, borne out by his choice of metaphors. […] Animal Farm isn’t a critique of revolutionaries; it’s a critique of workers. It’s an aristocratic manifesto against the working class

among the myriad of other reasons to despise him (such as his snitching notebooks where he compiled lists of Jews and communists) and his acolytes. Orwell was no great thinker he was a spoiled narcissist.

[-] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

tbf i've read the book 10 years ago and don't remember stuff so well but i liked reading it.

[-] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago
[-] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org -4 points 1 day ago

https://awebsitethatpushesmyviewpoint.org/on-orwell/

i'll make my own opinion, thanks, based on what he said himself, not what others say about him

[-] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He's quoted throughout it. It's a breakdown of his views and actions like being a racist rapist freak. You should probably read things before you judge them, prat.

[-] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

i'll make my own opinion, thanks, based on what he said himself, not what others say about him

Would you extend this courtesy to Hitler too?

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