[lbo-talk] RE: Big Brother, say wot?

[N P Childs]

I've read a lot of Orwell as well as two bios and this makes no sense. 
Orwell devoted his writing life to expressing the devastation of the human 
condition in capitalist/colonial society, politics and the use/abuse of 
language.

I get the feeling this may have been Orwell's idea of a joke. This makes as 
much sense as saying 'Darkness at Noon' was about the Catholic church. 1984 
was at the broadest level a satire on the Stalinization of English 
socialism. A lot of other things as well, but not the Catholic church. 
Somewhere in his grave Eric Arthur Blair is snickering over this one.

PC

At 6/30/2003,, you wrote:
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Big Brother
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>
>William Empson, who did know Orwell personally, claimed that Orwell
>aimed 1984 more at Catholicism than at communism.
>
>I've never seen it claimed elsewhere, though that doesn't mean much
>because I've never read much about Orwell.
>
>Carrol

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