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Have you read any other orwell books Urbane? I am thinking for example of Homage to Catalonia, or The Road to Wigan Pier.
Orwell was a socialist. What gives 1984 its power is that it is written by someone who had a profound belief in workers' rights and the possibilities that abound in revolution. It was not (as is it is sometimes read to be) an attack on the left, nor on socialism. It is a satire on the possibility of political tyrrany in the future; an attack on the betrayal of the left by those who were supposed to inspire fairness, of the communist elite who had forgotten what they were fighting for and of the labour government who had done so little for the rights and living standards of workers in Britain.
Political tyranny comes in many forms Urbane.....not all of them are collectivist. The system which Orwell saw as most culpable in the world was that of capitalism.
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