“My book attempts to reclaim ... the Orwell who risked his life and [fought] against fascism in Spain - the Orwell who believed in a greater idea of social justice.”
much appreciate the space given to analyze Orwell, though I'm one of the many limited to 1984, Animal Farm.
I do appreciate Orwell as an anti-fascist, anti-Stalinist, anti-imperialist, anti-class privilege, and as a free speech and true speech advocate. That he was anti-feminist does not surprise me, that is so mainstream, even on the left - I remember the phrase during the turbulent 60s "the position of women in the movement is horizontal" No accident black men got the vote before any woman, a black President before any woman - note with the same Party, Obama and Biden win, Clinton and Harris lose.
The right-wing may have appropriated Animal Farm but there is a subversive message about religion - the ruling farmers hire a crow to tell the animals to work hard, they will be rewarded after they die. At the revolution the crow is banished, but brought back with a similar message by the pigs who took over, the same motive as the farmer. Pie in the Sky when you die!!
much appreciate the space given to analyze Orwell, though I'm one of the many limited to 1984, Animal Farm.
I do appreciate Orwell as an anti-fascist, anti-Stalinist, anti-imperialist, anti-class privilege, and as a free speech and true speech advocate. That he was anti-feminist does not surprise me, that is so mainstream, even on the left - I remember the phrase during the turbulent 60s "the position of women in the movement is horizontal" No accident black men got the vote before any woman, a black President before any woman - note with the same Party, Obama and Biden win, Clinton and Harris lose.
The right-wing may have appropriated Animal Farm but there is a subversive message about religion - the ruling farmers hire a crow to tell the animals to work hard, they will be rewarded after they die. At the revolution the crow is banished, but brought back with a similar message by the pigs who took over, the same motive as the farmer. Pie in the Sky when you die!!