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  • True. without much context other than knowing animal farm was written against the soviet union for example, it’s easy to think that.

    Orwell becomes an anti-leftist icon.

    Honestly this is a really interesting phenomenon, where very famous figures being leftist/socialist is conveniently left out. MLK, Einstein, Orwell, Picasso, Nelson Mandela. They were all socialists yet that is not taught.


  • lmao, yeah thats why i love his books.

    its crazy to me how people will read it and not realize the main point was anti authoritarianism/totalitarianism, and think it was about socialism despite orwell himself being a democratic socialist. Most be up in the list of most misinterpreted writers