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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32730153
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right." — George Orwell, 1984
The problem with this quote, and things like Ur-fascism is they apply to both sides if you look at the full picture, especially the further away from the center you get. And when I say center I do not mean neoliberals/cons, I mean social democrats/liberals.
Uh... Yeah? If you've never read Nineteen Eighty-Four, it's a phenomenal and bone-chilling read, but as a minor spoiler you'd figure out not too far into the book: Orwell, an anarcho-socialist(asterisk), is critiquing authoritarianism through an attack on Soviet-style socialism.
Haven’t read it. I know about it obviously but never gotten around to it. I’ll probably read it soon though, I’ve been putting it off too long.