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Orwell is pretty much universally hated by authoritarians on both sides of the political spectrum.
He's a personal hero of mine for many reasons, but that's certainly one of them.
@sab @db0 @boredtortoise @novibe
Imagine hating Stalin with his massacres of real Communists, and being called an Anti-Communist? ๐
To be fair, Orwell writes in Homage to Catalonia that even though he fought alongside Communists, he was there to fight against fascism, not for communism. I think it makes sense that the communists are not all that eager to praise him; that they are too ignorant to read him is their loss.
No matter how you put it, Stalin was certainly a more effective anti-Communist!
@sab @db0 @boredtortoise @novibe
Actually he completely supported those he fought with. The "Poum" were Trotskyists, and could call themselves Communists.
Orwell had no problem with them, and there's Nothing in "Homage to Catalonia which attacks their ideals.
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.
@sab @db0 @boredtortoise @novibe
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.