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[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world -3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

"Nation of workers" lol

Some animals are more equal than others.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Babyschool book written by a cop, be better

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

Quote harry potter next if you're gonna be getting your political education from children's fables

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

You wanna elaborate on that, or are we supposed to feel convinced when you simply... restate the thing the meme is making fun of, but in an even more cliche sentence?

Do you think there's people out there joining the PSL or some other communist party who are gonna hear this 7th grade tier criticism and change their minds, or do you say it just for your own comfort?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

On Orwell

Isaac Asimov on 1984

A Critical Read of Animal Farm

Towards a Critique of Totalitarianism

Orwell hated the working class, his chief critique was that the working class is too stupid to think for itself and that it is destined to be swayed by whoever is most charismatic. The same monster snitched on gays, jewish people, and communists to the British government, and during WWII claimed that criticizing the USSR was the real litmus test of a leftist. That's not even getting into his history of sexual assault.

As for the USSR in reality, read Blackshirts and Reds and This Soviet World. If the CPSU was a "ruling class," it absolutely failed at being so. The discrepancy between the wealthiest and poorest in the Soviet Union was around ten times, but that number is in the thousands to billions in the Tsarist and capitalist eras respectively, and not just in Russia, but all capitalist systems.