Originally Posted by
discojoe
Well, you said it was a critique of Stalinism, and I was asking if you meant that the story was critiquing via looking at the longterm consequences of Stalinism.
Ah. Perhaps, not sure if he ever explained exactly want he intended. I still have to read one book by Hitchens called
Orwell's Victory. I think it's both a satyre of Stalinism - Big Brother is very obviously Stalin - and perhaps, yes, a projection of what the world could be like should it ever be spread over the world. At the time, many communists said that world communism would mean an end to war, and Orwell also wanted to say that was rubbish. I think he was basically saying to his fellow leftists, "that is the kind of world you want to take us to, it is the logical consequence", but so
but also mixed with
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