Originally Posted by Sycamore
Originally Posted by Robert_White
I just finished it yesterday. MOST AMAZING!

I don't know anything about George Orwell other than the back cover describes him as a socialist.

It would be interesting to to go down the list of everything he described in that book and what is happening today in our society.

I get the impression that his answer to a totalitarian regime was more socialism? I dunno... Amazing book.


He definitely started out as a lefty, well after he was a Colonial Policeman, he was a lefty, but he got to see Stalinism up close in Spain, and didn't much like it after that.

For a quick read, see "Why Orwell Matters" by the late Christopher Hitchens.

For a great read, try "Homage to Catalonia" by George Orwell.

"The Road to Wigan Pier" and "Down and Out in Paris and London" are good also.

Sycamore



+1 on 'Homage'

A good listen on Orwell's disillusionment with real world socialism / communism is this from, surprisingly, the BBC:

The Road to Nineteen Eighty-Four

Duration:
58 minutes

First broadcast:
Saturday 09 February 2013

What led avowed socialist George Orwell to write a novel beloved of the Right?

David Aaronovitch traces how a decade of political chaos shaped Orwell's vision of a totalitarian future.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qhb8b#threeG