I mean, if they had read it, they would know not to cite it

Also Orwell was a fascist who betrayed socialists to the secret police. Huxley's Brave New World is better. The promulgation of drug culture as inherently counter cultural is a psyop. 1984 is basically him fantasizing about how "communism bad, mmkay." The funny thing is the surveilance state imagined by orwell exists in the US right now. Ur TV literally listens to you all the time, ur laptop camera is not secure, nor either of these on a phone, but the right screeches on about COMMUSNISM BAD cuz they read it in a book by an anti-communist.

smh

I don’t even pay attention to Orwell. He’s said enough things that make no sense. I believe communism is bad because of what it actually is, and not because I was told so. Have you ever even read Marx?

Little bits: Principles of communsim, critique of the goethe program. I have been trying to read Lenin lately, he is pretty amazing. Marx is dense and hard to read, bu you can get great annotated summaries from economists. You need to read capital volumes I-III to really get his works and read Grundrisse to see his whole pantheon of works. I have been reading more contemporary authors and studying history. Currently reading The Politics of Heroin in South East Asia.

Asking someone if they have read Marx about communism is like asking someone if they have listened to a single band to characterize a whole genre. I just finished Imperialism The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Lenin.

Have you read Smith? Have you read Ricardo? Have you read Keynes? hmm?

Praytell, what is Communism? points for a good definition without googling it.