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minus-squareArthur Besse@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-215 hours agoSome recommended reading about George “I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler” Orwell: Isaac Asimov’s 1980 review of Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell’s 1940 review of Mein Kampf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwell's_list https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/George_Orwell one could say the widespread misperception of who he actually was and what he stood for is rather… orwellian 🙄
minus-squaredjsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·11 hours agoThe guy fought Nazi supplied Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. This take is nuts, he almost died for the CNT-FAI. He’s not a Nazi sympathizer.
minus-squareRamenJunkie@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·14 hours agoIts a bit off topic, but its really amusing in that Isaac Asimov article how he talks about the Spain thing where Socialists, Communists, and Anarchists were at odds. Basically, the left righting amongst themselves. The more things change…
Some recommended reading about George “I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler” Orwell:
one could say the widespread misperception of who he actually was and what he stood for is rather… orwellian 🙄
The guy fought Nazi supplied Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. This take is nuts, he almost died for the CNT-FAI. He’s not a Nazi sympathizer.
Its a bit off topic, but its really amusing in that Isaac Asimov article how he talks about the Spain thing where Socialists, Communists, and Anarchists were at odds. Basically, the left righting amongst themselves.
The more things change…