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The people who think Orwell was on the right are the same people who think Hitler was on the left. This is not a serious debate.
Everyone that has read the book understand that it is attacking fascism.
“Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.”
— George Orwell
Yeah, Orwell, the man who went to spain to fight fascism alongside the anarchists and the socialists was not writing a warning about socialism.
I mean… asking the question betrays a pretty deep lack of understanding of both the book and the author.
It’s revisionist history to pretend Orwell was talking about socialism.
It’s ignorance to pretend socialism has anything to do with fascism.
“BuT nAzIs CaLlEd ThEmSeLvEs SoCiAlIsTs!”
Didn’t watch the video but isn’t it just authoritarianism in general?
“Didn’t watch the video” seems to be a popular sentiment, considering the content of some of these replies.
Too many people trying to answer the question of the title, instead of actually watching the video and seeing what he has to say about it.
Maybe he should write an article instead of a video. I’m much more likely to engage with those. Or I guess I could run his video through an LLM to get a text summary.
What he has to say about it is bullshit, because he’s reframing totalitarianism as global oligarchy (which is a little too close for comfort to “the globalists”) and ending on the libertarian fever idea that capitalism of all things will destroy oligarchy.
