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DrinkLikeAGilmore 8 points ago +9 / -1

Nah, his books were in plain sight truths of what they had in store for us. He was one of them, too.

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Kaarous 9 points ago +9 / -0

Read some of his non literature writing. He was legitimately that unaware of it all. He actually thought that there was any meaningful difference between what he advocated and what Stalin brought about.

He absolutely was one of them, he just didn't know it himself.

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DrinkLikeAGilmore 1 point ago +1 / -0

Which of his non-lit would you recommend?

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Orwellthatendswell 2 points ago +2 / -0

Homage to Catalonia and Road to Wigan Pier.

Catalonia deals with his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, and exposes the power-mad factionalism of the left.

Pier is him living in the crushing poverty of industrial England, and explaining why, despite what it offers on the surface, the poor still hate Socialism, and why they're right to.