Now THAT tells me he was NOT a Commie.

Just found out this past week that George Orwell was a pen name. The author's actual name is Eric Arthur Blair. He wrote under a pseudonym to protect himself from criticism after his works were published.

They make it so obvious, same mantra, same accusations, same conclusions . . .

I heard about this. It's so farcical that I don't think my brain has completely comprehended it yet...

Just yesterday my friend and I were talking about that movie "Don't Look Up". Reminds me of that a little. "A meteor is about to kill us all." "Don't look up, racist."

The only place on earth human beings are truly equal is in the graveyard and socialist/communist systems have made millions of people prematurely truly equal.

Actually, I think bad ideas are usually more popular than good ideas.

I had a long conversation with an Admitted Communist. He glowed with the fact that under communism EVERYONE is EQUAL. He even said that if a company goes out of business in communism because the government set the price below a workable level, that the people will donate their time to keep the business going because they appreciate the lower prices.

And he believed this stuff. And I asked him "So, if EVERYONE is truly equal. Then EVEN a mentally handicapped person will get his turn to run the country? And you are okay with that?"

No. He cried. You can't let that happen.
I replied: I know that... But now that we are on the same page, that there is no such thing as EQUALITY of people, EVEN in communism... When do you think the people in POWER will give it up to let someone else have a turn? (Since we've never seen it really happen, and we know human nature...)

So... I think ignorant people know how to protect themselves and their power. Look at the morons in charge. And pay close attention to how Trump is charged for non-crimes, and actual crimes go unpunished. Doesn't take a genius to setup one-sided rules.

Just watch what hurts your cause... And attack it with the media in tow!

A warning of what was coming. Everyone should re-read or read 1984. Frightening.

In many ways, these authors could have awakened themselves.

I've heard the same accusation (rumor?). Here's an article I found:

https://fee.org/articles/was-george-o...

Here's a paragraph from it: "George Orwell, to his credit, was a friend of freedom of speech and press and an unrelenting foe of totalitarianism and censorship. He would shudder if you accused him of being a communist. But if you called him a socialist, he might thank you and then issue objections to the authoritarian things socialists like to do." He may have called himself a "Democratic Socialist".

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, in spite of the hell he went through giving us "The Gulag Archipelago", considered socialism the way to go. IMHO, these authors could write amazing works for public consumption illustrating in detail the failure and nightmare of statist collectivism, but failed in their personal lives to connect the dots to the cause.

The article cited above says after reading Hayek's "The Road To Serfdom", Orwell may have had an epiphany and moved away from socialism and towards being Libertarian.

Just published TGIFfunnies!

. . . or, was it just BS?

I read or heard that many years ago about these authors, . . So either they thought of communism differently or they were just venting to mitigate karma?

Considering that Orwell was a literal card holding member of the communist party…..sure I’ll label it as irony.

I would love to comment on this but, I cannot find the words to describe how IGNORANT this hamas posse is

Good one . . .

It's not Irony, it is Ironing.
They are wrinkling their noses at the truth, leaving the left steamed and pressing for Orwell censure.

Well, I don't think they were smart enough to come with it themselves . . . LMAO

It's just another day of good ole' American-styled "cancel culture" Yoke of the Woke fascist communism at work.

Was it prediction or an instruction manual?

That is absolutely magical. A preemptive strike against a 75 yr old prediction of their behavior. He had to be all bad things, and ignored.

If people don't see Goebbels and Mao in this approach they aren't paying attention.

Orwell's works are a poke in the collectivist's eye. He must be cancelled any way they can. Cancel him and they cancel his work.

Nice analogy.

Kind of like the: Brett Kavanaugh Treatment . . .just in the opposite in vain