I think Animal Farm and 1984 are worth recommending, if you’re willing to dig into the Trot/ML debates that heavily informed those two books.
Absolute left anticommunism hours. The book Winston reads in 1984 describes all of the superstates as “Oligarchal Collectivism” for fuck’s sake, which is an obvious reference to Trotsky’s theory of “Bureaucratic Collectivism”.
I think Animal Farm and 1984 are worth recommending, if you’re willing to dig into the Trot/ML debates that heavily informed those two books.
Absolute left anticommunism hours. The book Winston reads in 1984 describes all of the superstates as “Oligarchal Collectivism” for fuck’s sake, which is an obvious reference to Trotsky’s theory of “Bureaucratic Collectivism”.