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[Anonymous No.17964012]

>If there was hope, it must lie in the proles
So we can pretty much discard all Orwell's ideas regarding society, right?
No-one who writes such a low IQ statement deserves to be taken seriously.

[Anonymous No.17964019]

>>17964012
>No-one who writes such a low IQ statement deserves to be taken seriously.
Your words betray you.

[Anonymous No.17964023]

He’s right.

[Anonymous No.17964046]

>Reads a high-school tier novella
>Thinks he is qualified to talk about the 20th century's most influential writer
Should be a bannable offence.

[Anonymous No.17964053]

>>17964012
Another Orwell thread.
Yes bro he was a leftist so he believes in prole revolution. Why is this a surprise?

[Anonymous No.17964355]

>He really didn’t like the workers… It was his attitude in discussions that I didn’t like, his attitude towards the working class. Two or three of us said that he was on the wrong side, he should be on the other side… I rather think he fancied himself as another Bernard Shaw… There was no depth to his socialism at all.

-- Frank Frankford, Spanish Civil War veteran from East London

[Anonymous No.17964379]

>In his despair (or anger), Orwell forgets the virtues human beings have. All his characters are, in one way or another, weak or sadistic, or sleazy, or stupid, or repellent. This may be how most people are, or how Orwell wants to indicate they will all be under tyranny, but it seems to me that under even the worst tyrannies, so far, there have been brave men and women who have withstood the tyrants to the death and whose personal histories are luminous flames in the surrounding darkness. If only because there is no hint of this in 1984, it does not resemble the real world of the 1980s.

-- Isaac Asimov

>Much time [in Spain] was also spent engaged in political arguments, where ‘the conflicting party “lines” were debated over and over’. Orwell did not endear himself to his comrades by laughing at what he felt to be their political naivety. Like Pollitt and McNair before them, many volunteers were acutely aware of Orwell’s ‘cut-glass Eton accent’ and east Londoner Frank Frankford said he disliked the ‘supercilious bastard’ on sight. [...] Bob Edwards, who also took a personal dislike to Orwell, later unfairly described him as ‘a journalist observer [and] bloody scribbler’.

-- Richard Baxell

>Venables is the Buddicoms’ first cousin, and was left the copyright to Eric & Us, as well as 57 crates of family letters. From these she made the shocking discovery that, in 1921, Eric had tried to rape Jacintha. Previously the young couple had kissed, but now, during a late summer walk, he had wanted more. At only five feet to his six feet and four inches, Jacintha had shouted, screamed and kicked before running home with a torn skirt and bruised hip. It was “this” rather than any gradual parting of the ways that explains why Jacintha broke off all contact with her childhood friend, never to learn that he had transformed himself into George Orwell.

-- Kathryn Hughes