Does it bother you that he was a socialist?
>>70484145
No, he was just a hopeful cunt. Even though commie shit is retarded, I can understand perfectly why some russian peasent would support it in 1916
>>70484145
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>>70484145
No, he was an autist
>Does it bother you that he was a socialist?
1. that is the reason his books are used in public schools
2. he probably wasn't one, and his books sucked anyway.
>>70484145
Yes.
>>70484277
>>70484548
>he was just a hopeful
He literally went to war in the name of communism and fought with the rebels in Spain.
no because he was a based anti-Stalinist pro-worker leftist
He was an anarchist who fought on the side of socialists who later tried to kill him.
He just hated authoritarianism but /pol/ will probably dislike him because he was also very critical of colonial rule and thought that it was the white man being a slave to his pride
>>70484548
>2. he probably wasn't one
He fought for a Trotskyist militia in Spain
>>70484693
>Trots
Trots are still authoritarian goons though. Kronstadt much
>>70484693
He was a shitty "my type of communism has never been tried" faggot
>>70484868
That's literally every socialist throughout history
maybe yuri was right
they just can't let it go until their specific brand gets destroyed
>>70484621
Yes and he wrote a book about it.
It was about how we discovered communism was evil.
Fucking idiots on this board I swear.
>>70484145
People who tend to be centre/centre-left will always be accused of being right wing by lefties and left wing by people on the right.
People who sit on the fence will always be misunderstood.
He considered himself a socialist but was for gun ownership (as he believed it was the only way to keep society free from tyranny) and wrote about the tyranny of left wing governments.
If anything he was just a rational guy, like so many on the centre are.
Thing is though, people in the middle, who never pick a real side, never make a difference.
You have to stir the pot, flip the table etc to ever make a real difference.
>>70485274
>He considered himself a socialist but was for gun ownership
An extremely marxist belief
>If anything he was just a rational guy, like so many on the center are.
Center people aren't rational. They don't stand for anything.
>>70485515
>Center people aren't rational. They don't stand for anything.
But they are rational, they see both sides of the coin.
>>70484941
kek
>>70484145
All of you plebs criticizing Orwell should know he gave us the greatest tools against Communism and big government
He was a man of his time and his time was marred with mass exploitation which he was whole heatedly against and he was no some Marxist-Leninist he was Democratic Socialist
>>70486033
>he was Democratic Socialist
Same shit, different name
>>70485515
humans separate themselves into tribes over anything, center people are the only rational ones that might lead to a world thats actually better
>>70485515
>They don't stand for anything
On the contrary they realize both sides are flawed and take the best of both.
Thing is most people don't want compromise, they want all or nothing and are usually emotionally fueled.
A lot of centrists tend to be very sober, objective thinking people who can see the bigger picture.
>>70486180
>worker socialists
>communists
>soldiers
>communists
Yeah, no.
The Working class would NEVER give their shit to non workers.
>>70487449
You have an easier time converting bourgeois to Marxist-Leninist than converting workers to Communists.
>>70487611
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StZcUAPRRac
Good luck getting these people who give their blood and sweat to fraternize with intellectuals, all Marxist-Leninist states immediately destroy the working class.
>>70484145
He was batshit nuts. His greatest contribution to the written lexicon was recipe for tea.
>>70488068
His essay on the creation and heresies of tea brewing are my favorite of his writings.
No, it doesn't bother me. What really bothers me is people who invoke Orwell but have never read any of his books (and even better, his essays)
>”Socialism,” George Orwell famously wrote in The Road to Wigan Pier (1936), draws towards it ”with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist and feminist in England.” His tirade against such “cranks” is memorably extended in other passages of the book to include “vegetarians with wilting beards,” the “outer-suburban creeping Jesus” eager to begin his yoga exercises, and ”that dreary tribe of high-minded women and sandal-wearers and bearded fruit-juice drinkers who come flocking towards the smell of ‘progress’ like bluebottles to a dead cat.”
How much does that sound like hipsters and hippies? And he wrote of it in 1936.
>>70489847
Damn Orwell was redpilled
To bad he fell for the working-class meme
BEADY
If you want to know why he was socialist read his essay "Down the Mine".
