True, I always read him as at least sympathetic to the original communist struggle, no matter how much he despised Stalinism and authoritarianism.
It does, however, make sense that people who in all likelihood consider themselves Stalinists wouldn’t be the biggest fans of Orwell. What doesn’t make sense is that these morons still exist at all, but that’s a different issue entirely.
True, I always read him as at least sympathetic to the original communist struggle, no matter how much he despised Stalinism and authoritarianism.
It does, however, make sense that people who in all likelihood consider themselves Stalinists wouldn’t be the biggest fans of Orwell. What doesn’t make sense is that these morons still exist at all, but that’s a different issue entirely.
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I have an astonishing book at home released by the Soviet Union while Stalin was head of the Communist Party.
It’s a verbatim summary of some of the purge trials, and the lawyers for the defendants might as well have been the prosecutors.
In fact it reads like fiction, except that it’s a real book. Beyond belief that Anyone could support this mass murderer.