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Old 02-29-2012, 12:51 PM   #290
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Originally Posted by anamardoll View Post
I can't imagine how one could see it as pro-communist*.

Would be interested in hearing that perspective.

* ETA: A very specific type of communist that Orwell was writing about. He was dealing with history, not ideology, imho.
The idea is that it was all working well as a communist utopia until they got corrupted by capitalist pigs who were only interested in furthering their own agenda. Whereas the anti-communist line is that it could never possibly work because people are inherently greedy and selfish.

I don't know, or care, which one Orwell intended, but there's a little bit of truth in both of those points. Communism, like anarchism, is a theoretical ideal, but any attempt to build a working society around it is always doomed to failure.
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