[lbo-talk] How Politics Ruined My Life: Was Fuck Hope

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 15 00:39:54 PST 2009


It's amazing how many people seem to think that daily life in the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany was actually like 1984.

--- On Wed, 1/14/09, Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> Orwell - whether or not he would have liked it - is deeply
> embedded
> into the liberal canon now; it's a common sense and
> ordinary reality
> that's been built around him (or at least
> "1984," "Animal Farm," and
> "Politics and the English Language," nothing else
> being a regular part
> of people's formal political education.) It's like
> reading the KJV and
> noting how full of cliches it is.
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