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Old 01-11-2021, 05:25 PM
 
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George Orwell Quotes About Socialism

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And I note his book 1984 was written in 1949.
Nevertheless, socialism in democratic countries is just a marketing strategy for getting into power on the way to totalitarianism. Orwell may have fantasized about the socialist utopias, but the dystopia that he wrote about in his most famous work is where this invariably leads.

As the American Democrat left is demonstrating this for all to see in our country and the world, one more time, for those who were not convinced by the ultimate end of the promised "socialist utopia's" promised in Communist Russia, Nazi Germany and Maoist China during the last century.

Never has more senseless terror and loss of life been rendered by the hands of man. But if anyone can top them, the American Democrat (socialist) left unfortunately appears to be very much up to the task.
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Old 01-11-2021, 05:26 PM
 
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The book of his you cited in the OP was written to attack nationalism and defend socialism.
It failed. Also, the alternative to nationalism (actually internationalism) is not socialism, it is globalism.
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Old 01-11-2021, 05:26 PM
 
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If this gets people to actually read Orwell instead of just invoking his name, awesome.
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Old 01-11-2021, 05:28 PM
 
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Is anyone really surprised to see George Orwell's book "1984" tracking as the #1 selling book on Amazon? I hope not. What the leftists are doing right now is Orwellian and worse. If anyone wondered what it must have felt like in Russia during the early days of the Russian revolution, or during the 1930's in Germany as the Nazis implemented their intolerant purge of any dissenting voices, no need to speculate any longer. Surely we are adding our own chapter to that infamous list and we are all living through it right now.

In fact, 1984 is out of copyright, so anyone who wants to can read it for free. Here is a link to a website where you can download it and read 1984 (and a long list of other famous books that are out of copyright) for free on your smartphone, your tablet, your ereader, or your computer. I am partial to the "epub" format, but it is also available in other formats.

George Orwell - 1984

In order to read this book for free, you will either have to have a ebook reader device like Kindle, or you will have to download a bookreader app for your phone/tablet/laptop/PC, of which there are many, and most of them are free to download at either the google store or the apple store. Here is a review of the some of the more popular ebook reader apps:

11 of the Best Ebook Readers

I like the 'Cool Reader' app the best, because, well, it is cool. But seriously, there are a lot of good ones.

Anyway, here is a link to an article about the topic in the OP. If you have not read 1984 yet, you should all do so - ASAP.

As Big Tech muffles conservative voices, dystopian novel '1984' is top-selling book on Amazon
I was thinking the same thing, so I read 1984 a couple of weeks ago. So I wasn't the only one feeling that way.
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Old 01-11-2021, 05:29 PM
 
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Which, according to your link, is from his book, "The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945â€
What he showed us in 1984 is eerily similar to what the Democrat left and their corporate supporters are imposing on us right now. Regardless of what political philosophy he wanted to associate the outcomes of 1984 with, it is clearly your side that produces these outcomes.
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Old 01-11-2021, 05:30 PM
 
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If this gets people to actually read Orwell instead of just invoking his name, awesome.
You can download it for free using the information in the OP!
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Old 01-11-2021, 05:32 PM
 
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I don't know what amazon is thinking. if 1/2 of the american customer base stops buying from them... that stock price is gonna fall.
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Old 01-11-2021, 05:32 PM
 
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You can download it for free using the information in the OP!
It's on my shelf, I'm old-school. Danish translation as well.
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Old 01-11-2021, 05:32 PM
 
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It failed. Also, the alternative to nationalism (actually internationalism) is not socialism, it is globalism.
Nationalism can be globalist as well. Napoleon and Hitler were nationalists but that didn't stop them from trying to take over Europe.
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Old 01-11-2021, 05:32 PM
 
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Thank you for this info! I'm not ordering from Amazon anymore so these links are great to have.
You are welcome. There are hundreds of some of the greatest books ever written that you can download for free like this and read on your smartphone, tablet or PC.
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