Comment by skinnymuch
2 days ago
Isn’t Orwell a fed informant screwing over the left he claimed to be a part of? Can’t imagine he’d have good takes.
2 days ago
Isn’t Orwell a fed informant screwing over the left he claimed to be a part of? Can’t imagine he’d have good takes.
After he went to fight for the left in Catalonia, and had to flee Catalonia for being the wrong kind of Marxist, he believed that the best thing for the left was to keep out actual Stalinists in order to preserve freedom for socialism.
Always funny when people not on the left talk about left-wing stuff. You’re not even part of the in-group.
A former partner of mine is a literal communist; I forget which kind of communist exactly, but the Life Of Brian thing about them constantly splitting into even more niche groups and being more angry with the other lefty groups than they are with the political right, is 100% correct.
There's a TV interview of her in the lead up to 2016 saying Trump would be better than Clinton. (Not that she liked Trump, that's different, just that she thought Clinton was worse). Still shares Demexit memes on FB, last I saw.
Actual, literal, communist. Was part of the Socialist Worker's Party in the UK just when that exploded.
Sooooo… who's the in-group?
I didn’t say that he’d have a “take”. I said he’d find the climate familiar.